In his new, controversial book, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan asks “What Happened?”

While McClellan is referring to the lies and deceptions within the George W. Bush administration, many of his past colleagues are asking the same question about the man they used to know.

“Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House,” said the woman who currently holds his former job, Dana Perino: “For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew.”

Dan Bartlett, Bush’s former counselor who worked with McClellan for nearly a decade, added that McClellan gave voice to “an outrageous accusation that mostly was coming from the left wing of the Democratic Party.”

Former friends and co-workers of Scott McClellan wanna know what happened with him. Is his book a result of a guilty conscience, or a dried up bank account?

Meanwhile, Karl Rove certainly could not keep his mouth shut on the issue. The Republican strategist was accused in the book of misleading McClellan on the legal problems of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

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In his controversial new book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan reflects on some of the outright lies told to the American people.

Equaled only by the quagmire that is the Iraq war, the most devastating of George W. Bush’s many failures as President was his response (or lack thereof) to the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

According to Scott McClellan, the famous photos taken of George Bush overlooking New Orleans from his plane after the storm were entirely staged.

The brainchild? You guessed it, former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. Bush’s brain, the sultan of sleaze and master of media manipulation recommended taking the photos to show just how much Bush cared. *sniff*

The duplicity of Rove and Bush has tarnished the office of the presidency more than any two photos can adequately describe. But the staged images below are some of the most chilling examples of this culture of deception …

George W. Bush poses for the cameras as he surveys New Orleans.

For a change, Scott McClellan isn’t answering questions about the news.

The former press secretary to George W. Bush is making it.

In his new book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, McClellan holds little back. He writes that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” and “downplaying the major reason for going to war.”

Harsh, accurate words for sure.

McClellan admits to standing at the White House podium and attempting to lead reporters in the wrong direction on issues such as the Valerie Plame case. Watch his exercise in tap dancing around questions regarding it below:

Unsurprisingly, some of those criticized in McClellan’s book - such as Karl Rove, who McClellan says he unknowingly exonerated when discussing the issue of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - aren’t pleased with this turn of events.

Rove responded to the book by saying it sounds like it comes from the mind of a “left wing blogger.” Here he is on his home away from home, Fox News: