In a stunning revelation and indictment of the Bush administration, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan today went public with his assertion that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

In excerpts released from his forthcoming book, “What Happened”, which isn't due out until April, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and I were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame. McClellan wrote,

There was one small problem. It was not true. I had unknowingly passed along false information and five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so. Rove, Libby, Vice-President Cheney, Chief-Of-Staff Andrew Card and President Bush himself.