This week in "Spin Cycle," NOW goes inside the story of how Valerie Plame's name became public. Maria Hinojosa looks at the White House spin machine, examines the Plame case as part of how the administration marketed and protected its case for war, and questions whether the media was misled, or if it dropped the ball.

Over the past two years, the media has kept a close watch on this case, one that could dramatically change the way journalists use confidential sources. Below are some of the highlights in media coverage of the TIME magazine chapter of the story.

• A War on Wilson?, by Matthew Cooper, Massimo Calabresi and John F. Dickerson
  TIME, July 17, 2003
  Inside the Bush Administration's feud with the diplomat who poured cold water on the Iraq-uranium connection

• A Case for the Supreme Court, by Norman Pearlstine
  TIME, May 23, 2005
  TIME Magazine Editor-in-Chief's statement regarding the company's decision

• The Rove Factor?, by Michael Isikoff
  NEWSWEEK, July 11, 2005
  Time magazine talked to Bush's guru for Plame story

• Matt Cooper's Source, by Michael Isikoff
  NEWSWEEK, July 18, 2005
  What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter

• "What I Told the Grand Jury," by Matthew Cooper
  TIME, July 25, 2005
  Matthew Cooper reveals exactly what Karl Rove told him — and what the special counsel zeroed in on

• Helen Thomas
  The Boston Channel provides links to recent columns by Hearst White House Columnist Helen Thomas