Who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the press?  It was one of Washington's unsolved mysteries until Michael Isikoff and David Corn  blew the lid off that story with their explosive new book,  Hubris: the Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War.  We talk to our old pal Isikoff about the book, and about the role that classic Washington cover-up played in the run-up to the Iraq War.

Congress and the Justice Department are sniffing around yet another a leak investigation – but this one is straight from the business pages.  Business Week's Lorraine Wollert talks to us about  the possibly illegal attempts to discover the source of news leaks from within computer giant Hewlett-Packard that led HP to announce yesterday that its chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, will step down in January.

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Results are in from yesterday's primaries in nine states and DC.  The Republican establishment helped Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee beat his unelectably far right challenger, Steve Laffey, even though Chafee has a tendency to stray from the Bush orthodoxy.  They figure a moderate Republican will be harder for the Democrats to beat--and they're right.

Bush Administration lies have been sounding particularly pathetic lately.  Listen to Tony Snow and his lame attempt to establish the "relationship" between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.

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Michael Hirsh on Bush's "war on terror" rhetoric.

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George Allen loves his Macacas: