Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is making headlines around the internet today (including the Drudge Report‘s signature “SCOTT THE SNITCH") for his new book, to be released next week, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. Politico has the rundown of ”explosive revelations” from McClellan:

• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

Karl Rove, for his part, was on Fox News today denouncing the allegations and saying McClellan sounded ”like a left-wing blogger.” The White House is calling McClellan ”disgruntled."

McClellan himself will be here at the 92nd Street Y next Wednesday, June 4 for a conversation with Dan Rather to offer his side of the story in more detail. Tickets are still available at post-time.

[Scott McClellan with Dan Rather: Inside the Bush White House: 6/4/08]