A Rove moment: Niger Docs versus National Guard documents

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Mods can move if you need. But LBN story on Niger Docs is CENTRAL to Wilson/Plame/War.

So: Everybody remember that CBS was to run the story on the Niger Docs and instead did the story on the Bush National Guard documents?

And the DU consensus was ROVE planted the Bush documents? (I never buy that Rove stuff until..well)

Well: It is the center of the story isn't? Coincendence? It's killing me.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6073449/site/newsweek

But just hours before the piece was set to air on the evening of Sept. 8, the reporters and producers on the CBS team were stunned to learn the story was being scrapped to make room for a seemingly sensational story about new documents showing that Bush ignored a direct order to take a flight physical while serving in the National Guard more than 30 years ago.

This is like living in a Kafka novel,” said Joshua Micah Marshall, a Washington Monthly contributing writer and a Web blogger who had been collaborating with “60 Minutes” producers on the uranium story. “Here we had a very important, well-reported story about forged documents that helped lead the country to war. And then it gets bumped by another story that relied on forged documents.”

Some CBS reporters, as well as one of the network’s key sources, fear that the Niger uranium story may never run, at least not any time soon, on the grounds that the network can now not credibly air a report questioning how the Bush administration could have gotten taken in by phony documents. The network would “be a laughingstock,” said one source intimately familiar with the story.

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What do these stories share? Forged documents.

[stop the bleeding]

1. 60 minutes will be airing a piece tonight on the Plame scandal

and maybe just maybe they might mention the Niger Forgeries, don't hold your breathe though:puffpiece: