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When parts of the Washington press corps got egg on their faces for circulating suggestions from “sources close to the White House” that Judge Edith Clement would get Bush’s Supreme Court nod, some wondered who exactly these oft-quoted, and off-the-mark, leakers were. Now Ryan Lizza has a handy guide to the dozen or so folks who will talk when the White House won’t. Keep it bookmarked for the next time their names pop (or don’t pop) up.