McClellan on Plame
By Robert D. Novak

In Scott McClellan’s purported tell-all memoir of his trials as President George W. Bush’s press secretary, he virtually ignores Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage’s role in leaking to me Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA employee. That fits the partisan Democratic version of the Plame affair, in keeping with the overall tenor of “What Happened.” McClellan’s handling of the leak leads former colleagues to suggest he could not have written this book by himself.