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“I think what you’re seeing is that Karl is continuing to live in his own world here,” McClellan said in an appearance on MSNBC’s Countdown With Keith Olbermann Tuesday.

“He’s the only one that thinks that he was not involved in any effort to expose Valerie Plame’s CIA employment. He continues this cover story that ‘I didn’t know her name’ and for that reason, he couldn’t have leaked her name.”

McClellan, whose own 2008 tell-all memoir What Happened revealed a slew of unflattering secrets about the administration, said he “did receive personal assurances from Karl” that he wasn’t involved before relaying the message to the press — which he was later criticized for.

“The interesting thing is that Karl Rove actually did apologize to me on three occasions back in July of 2005 when it became known that he was involved,” McClellan said. “I’ll leave it to other people to judge what it says about someone who will privately make such an apology but is afraid to make such an apology publicly when the cameras are rolling and the spotlight’s on him.”

I believe McClellan as much as I believe Rove — that is, not at all. We’ll probably never find out what really happened..