As reported on the BBC, the leading news distributor worldwide. The story appears to have legs:
Bush 'involved' in CIA leak case
In an excerpt from his book, Scott McClellan says George W Bush helped mislead the public over the role in the affair of two White House aides.
The wording is kind, instead of outright stating that he lied, it states that he misled. This is a curious trend.
Instead of having an affair with his brother's wife, he mis-moralled.
We like the BBC but find their use of doublespeak to be mis-directed. However we do agree that mis-leading is certainly a dis-appointing aspect of the present administration.
The proper term is Orwellian doublespeak.
Of course, there are plenty of modern examples of doublespeak today, such as the referring to unintentional damage in war expeditions to civilians and non-target structures "collateral damage." The action might have unintentionally killed neutral civilians, but that would simply be "collateral damage." And thus by using vague terms the crime becomes abstracted and meaningless to the public. source
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