Forgerygate

David Neiwert, a Seattle based journalist, has one excellent post and another excellent post about Docugate (or whatever you want to call the CBS/Rather/Bush/document forgery/Hattfield and Mccoys/use the baby as a pinnnatta/hold your water and hope for the best fiasco).

Please be sure to check out this fascinating tidbit from The Blogging of the President (via Neiwert), which asserts that the memos are a product of an investigation of the Nixon Justice Department:

President Richard Nixon’s Justice Department investigated possible political payoffs in return for scarce Texas National Guard spots in the early 1970s, leading many fearful officers to scramble and write “CYA” memos of the type written by Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, sources involved confirmed Sunday