Scott McClellan: “The issue here is whether or not someone leaked classified information.”

I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood.

We do not negotiate with terrorists.

If the president is committed to embracing a high level of openness and honesty, then we can move Washington beyond this partisan warfare that has been so destructive.

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.