Daily Mail Thursday 22nd November 2007
PRESIDENT BUSH was yesterday accused of making his press secretary lie to cover up a dirty tricks scandal.
The allegation about Mr Bush's role in illegally "outing" an undercover CIA agent is made by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan in his forthcoming book.
At a press conference in 2003 Mr McClellan denied top aides Karl Rove & Lewis Libby were involved in leaking the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
"There was one problem> It was not true," he writes."I had unknowingly passed along false information."
He says five officials in the White House were involved in his doing so, including the vice-president and Mr Bush.
Valerie Plame has always claimed the White House leaked her name in revenge for her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, having undermined one of the president's key pieces of "Evidence" for going to war in Iraq.
A spokesman for Mr Bush said the President "had not and would not " ask a spokesman to pass on false information.
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