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.

“If he had these moral qualms, he should have spoken up about them,” Rove said. “And, frankly, I don’t remember him speaking up about these things. I don’t remember a single word.”

Lastly, we’ll give the final words to Ari Fleischer, the man who held the position of White House Press Secretary from January 2001 through July 2003:

“There’s just something about it that doesn’t make any sense to me. And I’m heartbroken about this. Scott was always a great deputy to me, very reliable, trustworthy, and never once did he come up to me and express any misgivings that he had or to anybody else that I know of about the war or the manner in which the White House prepared for the war.

And even after Scott left the White House he went on TV shows and defended President Bush and the war. So I don’t know what changed so dramatically for Scott in the last few months - several months - that led him to write a book that was so different from everything I saw about Scott personally and privately.”

Scott McClellan, seen here during his days on the job, says the administration engaged in propaganda to sell the Iraq war.