Left wing blogger Joshua Micah Marshall was apparently one of those who were tipped off about the now infamous fraudulent Killian memos—ahead of the 60 Minutes II broadcast. From his blog post of September 7:

Feel the buzz. Contrary to what I had originally understood, the Ben Barnes interview is running Wednesday evening. But, I’m told by several sources that the Barnes’ interview is only a relatively small part of the package 60 Minutes is running. There’s other stuff that CBS has — newly discovered, or at least newly-revealed, documents that shed light on Bush’s guard service or lack thereof.

— Josh Marshall

Ironically, his post immediately after this one is titled, “Coincidences are the strangest things.”

UPDATE at 9/25/04 4:21:24 pm:

Marshall was so excited about these documents that he posted twice about them. I wonder if he saw them, and didn’t recognize the obvious fraud?

CBS has now gone live with its online promo for the Ben Barnes interview that is running tomorrow evening. But, as I noted earlier, that’s not what the headline will be after the segment runs.

The big news won’t be how Bush got into the Guard but how he blew off his duties once he got there. Again, new documents — stuff that is clear and straightforward and apparently puts beyond any debate or doubt that the now-President blew off the duties that he said, as recently as this year, that he fulfilled.