Scott McClellan's 'What Happened' Upsets Bush Administration

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The Bush administration is not pleased with its former spokesman, Scott McClellan, who is currently on a media blitz to promote his new tell-all book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington."

White House officials and fellow former employees of McClellan have reacted to the book by saying they are "shocked" and "puzzled" by the allegations McClellan has made--allegations which accuse the administration of being "evasive" and "shading the truth" when it came to marketing the Iraq War. Reportedly, even political insiders were unaware that McClellan's White House memoir was in the works until news about it broke Wednesday morning.

McClellan appeared on "The Today Show" this morning and defended his motivation for speaking out.

"I have a higher loyalty," he told Meredith Vieira. "A loyalty to the truth and values that I was raised on."

When asked why he didn't speak up while he was working for the administration, McClellan said it was easy to " get caught up in the White House bubble, caught up in the man you're serving."

"I blame myself for putting myself in the position to go to the podium and say things that I did not know were false," he said.

McClellan's former boss Ari Fleischer told "Good Morning America" that McClellan left his job at the White House "on a bad note and had a difficult tenure while he was there. ”¦ I think he's taking that out on the president. He's inventing facts after he left to say the president manipulated information."

Fleischer also noted that McClellan's claims don't hold water as he was "out of the loop," however, Matt Lauer commented that a spokesperson for the White House should not be out of any loops.

White house press secretary Dana Perino also called the book "a sad rant."

McClellan said, "I expected these kind of attacks, but there is a larger purpose here."

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