"It's important to keep in context we're in the heat of a presidential campaign and all of a sudden he comes out with a book that he is seeking to promote ... and he is making charges that simply did not happen," McClellan said.
"This is Dick Clarke's American grandstand. He just keeps changing the tune," McClellan added.
The stepped-up White House counterattack comes as the president's re-election campaign is showcasing Bush's role as a wartime president. And it comes a day before the Sept. 11 panel -- officially the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States -- turns its attention to the accountability of top government officials in two days of public hearings on counterterrorism.
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