Ex-Bush spokesman blasts president in shock book

The White House press secretary most known for defending President George Bush on Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and a host of other controversies has produced a shock memoir damning his old boss on nearly every level.

In the first major insider account of the Bush White House, one-time spokesman Scott McClellan lets fly, accusing Mr Bush of too much secrecy, a less-than-honest selling of the Iraq war, to a lack of personal candour and an unwillingness to admit mistakes.