Scott McClellan: “This is my honest perspective on how things went off track. And that's all I can do is honestly and forthrightly express…”

We do not negotiate with terrorists.

He and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war.

There's been no evidence to back that up whatsoever.

If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war…