WSJ Opinion Journal raises questions of whether CBS was a "vessel for, if not a willing participant in, a partisan dirty trick" in the Bush bushwacking story. [bolding mine]

And we know that the day after Mr. Rather's report aired, the Democrats unveiled 'Operation Fortunate Son,' a campaign video about Mr. Bush's National Guard service that incorporated footage from '60 Minutes.'

Pretty hard to disagree with that conclusion nor walk away unconvinced after reading this by Balloon Juice.

Right now, they merely appear incompetent, and they have determined incompetence is better than complicit.

Read the whole thing. It's a great article. And Roger L. Simon's take on it is good, too.