Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times' sake?

Our opening text tonight comes from a classic treatise on American management:

Tom Hagen: [after finding out Tessio sold Michael out] Tessio. I always thought it would be Clemenza.

Michael Corleone: It's the smart move. Tessio was always smarter.

The Post already has this in its Tuesday edition:

It is not clear whether Fitzgerald plans to charge anyone inside the Bush administration with a crime. But with the case reaching a climax -- administration officials are braced for possible indictments as early as this week-- it is increasingly clear that Cheney and his aides have been deeply enmeshed in events surrounding the Plame affair from the outset.

And the rumor has been circulating for at least a week that a cold wind has been blowing between Cheney and Bush since last summer anyway--a situation made worse by Karl Rove's distraction over grand jury problems and Cheney's apparent unhappiness with the Harriet Miers nomination.

Oh, but it gets better. Here's the word Raw Story is leading with tonight:

The case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame is set to explode.

The New York Daily News is set to report in Tuesday editions that a well-placed source interviewed by the newspaper believes a senior White House official has flipped and may be helping the prosecutor in the case, RAW STORY has learned.

The Daily News will reveal that a top source believes that based on the questioning of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and his other contacts with the investigation, someone in the White House has turned.

All eyes are on Dick Cheney, the News says, as the investigation wraps up.

Remember: Tessio was always the smarter one. Gotta go; "Colbert Report" comes on in a few minutes.

Stay tuned tomorrow.