From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

Brooke is reporting in China this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

Charles Gibson.

Good evening. It has been a day of behind-the-scenes drama in the presidential race.

So what does Hillary won? What are her demands? Is she negotiating now with Barack Obama?

Turning now to politics, Hillary Clinton's

campaign said today she is not actively seeking the vice presidential nomination. All but

buried in the avalanche of coverage this week on the end of the Democratic primaries and the historic

victory of Senator Barack Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton was another White House challenge in the U.S. Senate,

this one between the Intelligence Committee and the Bush administration.

After years of partisan gamesmanship, a five-year committee investigation into the selling of the Iraq War,

concluded that the president and his subordinates exaggerated Saddam Hussein's

threat beyond his own borders, leading to an invasion based on what Senator Jay Rockefeller called

false premises. The report was especially critical of the administration's continued assertions

of a connection, never substantiated, between Saddam and the plotters of 9-11.

For instance, this September 2003 talking point, mouthed by then presidential press secretary, Scott McClellan.

We do know that there is a long history of Saddam Hussein and his regime in ties to terrorism, including al-Qaeda.

The Senate report had a certain too obvious, too-late quality to it,

but it did dovetail nicely with the other big Washington political story of the week,

McClellan's own media tour, promoting

his new memoir, What Happened, which portrays a naive, idealistic public servant, partly

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