Kerry Spot    [ jim geraghty reporting ]
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Spoke a few minutes ago to David Thibault, managing editor of CNSNews.com, which may or may not have the scoop of the year with documents detailing Iraqi intelligence’s dealings with terrorists and purchase of mustard gas and anthrax in 2000.

Thibault said that since they reported the story yesterday, five “big, medium, and small” media organizations have inquired about the documents and taking a look at them for themselves, including the Kerry Spot.

The first comment by any member of the administration came Monday, when conservative radio host Sean Hannity asked Donald Rumsfeld about CNSNews.com’s report.

“Until I have a chance to see — until the people going over documents have a chance to pore through enough of them to come to, to develop some conviction about what they think it means, and then to try to corroborate them by interviews with people, it would be premature for me to get into it,” Rumsfeld said, according to CNSNews.

Thibault said his organization decided not to post the documents on the Internet because of “the danger of the documents being taken and altered… as a result, we’re making them available here for anyone to look at and make copies for themselves.”

I would head over, but I think the only thing I would be able to assess is whether the Iraqi intelligence word processors have superscript ‘th’s and proportional spacing. Expect more from NRO on all this though shortly.

Ironically, I understand that in Arabic, one of these memos says “Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I’m having trouble running interference and doing my job.”

That last line is a joke, people.

But it’s interesting to note the difference in the mainstream media’s reaction to the CBS memos and these documents.

[Posted 10/05 11:41 AM]