Tenet was privately worried about a war buildup not backed up by C.I.A. facts , but he only publicly sounded the alarm years later in a lucrative memoir fueled by payback , after Condi and Cheney tried to cast him as the fall guy on W.M.D. McClellan did not realize the value of a favorite maxim -- " The truth shall set you free " -- until he was hung out to dry by his bosses in the Valerie Plame affair , repeating the lies Karl Rove and Scooter Libby brazenly told him about not being the leakers .