Eric Alterman's new Nation column, Abrams and Novak and Rove? Oh My!, is out:

In addition to suggesting Elliott Abrams was the leaker, columnist Eric Alterman writes the following about the Joseph Wilson affair: "Part of the reason (it was ignored) is the insider establishment's deep-seated unwillingness to face up to the Nixonian depths of this Administration's moral depravity." "Bob Woodward plays ball...he doesn't bother weighing any competing claims or seeking to determine whether anything he is spoon-fed might actually be true." "The second great fiction of this story is the notion that Robert Novak is a 'journalist.'"

Also in the new Nation:

After purchasing John Ashcroft and George Tenet's social security numbers and home addresses on the Internet, author Jamie Court shows how the Administration is failing to prevent identity theft.

Writer Jamie Pietras explains how states are using financial aid laws to discourage peaceful student protests.

In a web exclusive, Washington editor David Corn learns of a National Security Council staffer who might have played a role in the Joseph Wilson leak scandal. Read why he's decided not to leak this person's identity in his "Capital Games" weblog.