Scott McClellan:Disgorge Those Profits

The House Judiciary Committee has a dog-and-pony show scheduled for next week. Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan will appear as the dog and the pony, perhaps chasing his own tail.

It's no easy thing being a spokesperson and co-conspirator. It's one thing to vouch for your boss, another to provide false information when you're supposed to be speaking truthfully, aiding the media and helping to maintain transparency in an open society.

In politics, business, government and the military, when superiors order you to do something illegal you join in or you quit. In the the highest office in the land an ethical spokesman could resign to save his credibility and then write a book. Or he could sign onto the conspiracy. McClellan in effect re-upped each time he dissembled or obfuscated.

Should he profit from a conspiracy in which he played one of the most public roles, diverting and deceiving the media?

Scott, tell the Committee next week that you are disgorging all proceeds from the book and any product that flows from it to gain some needed credibility.