Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan today said that a former top aide to President Bush directed him to mislead the press about another administration official's involvement in the leak of a spy's name to the news media.

In testimony before the House judiciary committee, McClellan said that then-White House chief of staff Andrew Card told him to tell reporters that Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to vice-president Dick Cheney, played no part in the release of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. He said Card told him that at the request of Bush and Cheney.