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To: LindyBill who wrote (72788)	9/23/2004 8:25:49 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793916

Another forged document hoax Newsweek's Issikoff and Hosenball report: 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 ... the story, narrated by “60 Minutes” correspondent Ed Bradley, asked tough questions about how the White House came to embrace the fraudulent documents and why administration officials chose to include a 16-word reference to the questionable uranium purchase in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech. Of course, the President SOTU claim about Niger uranium was not based on the fraudulent documents mentioned in the CBS story, but on British intelligence, which was validated by the Butler report. The article goes on to quote: 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.” [Josh Marshall? He's not an objective journalist. He's just another pajama-clad opinion blogger. Yes, but he's a partisan liberal Democrat. Oh, okay, so he is an objective journalist. ] To recap: The CBS people originally intended to falsely accuse the administration of relying on forged documents, but then found what they considered to be an even juicier way to bring down the administration by using forged documents of their own. Now Newsweek is attempting to help salvage CBS's reputation by validating CBS original bogus story. It's an ugly world out there.