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| 2004-09-23 |
| In its rush to air its now discredited story about President George W. Bush's National Guard service, CBS bumped another sensitive piece slated for the same "60 Minutes" broadcast: a half-hour segment about how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! The journalistic juggling at CBS provides an ironic counterpoint to the furor over apparently bogus documents involving Bush's National Guard service. One unexpected consequence of the network's decision was to wipe out a chance -- at least for the moment -- for greater public scrutiny of a more consequential forgery that played a role in building the Bush administration's case to invade Iraq. A team of "60 Minutes" correspondents and consulting reporters spent more than six months investigating the Niger uranium documents fraud, CBS sources tell NEWSWEEK. The group landed the first ever on-camera interview with Elisabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who first obtained the phony documents, as well as her elusive source, Rocco Martino, a mysterious Roman businessman with longstanding ties to European intelligence agencies... 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. Would be a laughingstock? They already are. One good thing, though: This article goes on and on, trying to make the case that ALL the evidence on yellowcake from Niger was faked. We know that's not true. At least now, maybe, this slanted report won't get aired and do damage. |
| Posted by:growler |
| #10 These are metal spikes right? Most decent courses don't allow rubber spikes on the green. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-23 5:38:24 PM |
| #9 Fine, then. Bunny slippers...with spikes. Bwahahahaha! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-23 5:22:51 PM |
| #8 Not track shoes, Seafarious & Crazy Fool! BUNNY SLIPPERS. You wear BUNNY SLIPPERS with pjs - didn't you get the memo from Klein? Heh heh .... |
| Posted by: rkb 2004-09-23 2:21:47 PM |
| #7 The group landed the first ever on-camera interview with Elisabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who first obtained the phony documents... Ting! Hmmm, there's a faint bell of recognition. Where have I heard that name before? Oh, yeah. From 9/22/01. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-09-23 2:11:06 PM |
| #6 I totally agree, dancing on CBS's corpse while in spikes is just totally, totally unseemly! And a heck of a lot of fun. When can we start?!!!! |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2004-09-23 1:24:03 PM |
| #5 it must be a plot. It's all too perfect. Karl Rove must be behind all of this...Bwahhahahahahaaaaaaa!!! |
| Posted by: 2B 2004-09-23 1:00:46 PM |
| #4 Yeah, but dancing on CBS's corpse while in spikes is just unseemly. :) |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-09-23 12:59:17 PM |
| #3 spiked track shoes and pajamas - the new blogsphere uniform..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-09-23 12:43:21 PM |
| #2 the blogosphere would have run it down even more quickly... Lacing up our track shoes...the ones with the spikes. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-23 12:30:19 PM |
| #1 Those would be the documents forged by that Italian gentleman at the behest of the French secret service. Just as well CBS didn't run that particular story -- the blogosphere would have run it down even more quickly...and there could have been no arguing CBS's bias when the forged-to-order story had already been reported in the newspapers. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-23 12:14:28 PM |