that the vice president's team could have been involved in this but the vice president himself left no fingerprints is likely. when my coauthor and i read the initial publication in "the new york times" we both thought we saw the vice president's speechwriter or maybe his former chief of staff at work on that prose. so you've got now a vice president who's racing to humiliate himself. this whole idea of there being a lie detector test, he goes one step further and says, well, i'll take the lie detector test. and that's something out of reality tv. but it's certainly not something dignified. it's degrading to any executive to be asked to do that, and it's really pretty pathetic for one to volunteer to do it. if he truly had nothing to do with this, he would issue his denial and move on. but i almost think he's