Scott McClellan: “Saddam Hussein's regime was responsible for the systematic terrorizing, torture, killing, and raping of innocent Iraqis.”

The federal government should have taken more responsibility, because, to the American people, I think, the federal government is the failsafe backstop to all that.

Yes. No, I was sincere at the time. Now, looking back and reflecting on that, I have a different perspective on it.

The presidency of George W. Bush veered terribly off course, and the administration was guilty of a, in his words, excessive embrace of the permanent campaign approach to governance.

When I found out I had been knowingly lied to by Karl Rove and Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame leak episode and passed along false information based on their assurances two years prior to that saying that they weren't involved.