Scott McClellan: “Saddam Hussein's regime retained the intent and capability to produce weapons of mass destruction...”

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.

But 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.

You have a lot of good people that come there for the right reasons, to make a difference, but they get caught up in this permanent campaign culture, where it's all about manipulating the narrative to their advantage.

We should have embraced a high level of openness and forthrightness, in addition to that, and then the expectations wouldn't have gotten so out of whack, and we wouldn't have been in the problem we were -- we came to later when the…