McClellan stirring up the dust?

Earlier today, the publishing company of former Bush White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's yet to be released book on his time in the White House teased the public with 121 words from said book. It's hard to tell whether Scott McClellan's assertions that he was lead to unintentionally lie to the White House press corps. about Karl Rove and Scooter Libby's involvement in the C.I.A. leak scandal is indeed genuine or if these 121 words are merely a cheap ploy to increase book sales come April. If true, it would certainly confirm one of the most damning suspicions that people have had regarding this President since 2003, that he knowingly aided in the outing and/or cover up of the outing of a C.I.A. non-official cover operative, one that was working on nuclear non-proliferation no less. I give you the incriminating words:

The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one 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, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the President himself.