That’s what happens when you screw your subordinates and let them twist in the wind: the first opportunity, they stab you in the back:
CNN.com – CNN Political Ticker Ex-aide: Bush, Cheney involved in misleading media about Plame leak «
“There was one problem. It was not true,” McClellan writes in his new book, “What Happened,” which is scheduled to be released in April. “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, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff and the president himself.”