60 Minutes Spiking This One Too?

The articles that have come out about the 380 tons of explosives gone walkin' from the Al Qaqaa (boy, is Jon Stewart gonna have fun with that name) site in Iraq speak teasingly of a 60 Minutes report on the topic. Right at the top, the New York Times article mentions:

This article was reported in cooperation with the CBS News program "60 Minutes.'' "60 Minutes" first obtained information on the missing explosives.

It also notes that:

American officials have never publicly announced the disappearance, but beginning last week they answered questions about it posed by The New York Times and the CBS News program "60 Minutes."

The Iraqi Technology Minister, Rashad M. Omar, is also cited as being interviewed by 60 Minutes.

In one of Josh Marshall's posts on the subject, there's a line that quotes The Nelson Report:

1. The Summary gives you the sum total of what we have been told, starting Friday, by informed observers and directly involved officials. There was an expectation of a major newspaper story on it this morning, and perhaps also a segment on tonight’s 60 Minutes, on CBS Television.

Well, it wasn't on CBS Television tonight. The stories were a two-parter about Emmett Till, and a Jon Stewart interview.

There are only two more 60 Minutes episodes before the election. If, as the Times blurb says, they were the ones who "first obtained information" on the missing explosives, doesn't it stand to reason that they'd be the ones to break it? Given that we already know that 60 Minutes has publicly spiked an Ed Bradley piece about Niger and yellowcake until after the election, it's fair to ask the question of whether or not they're spiking this story as well.

And I think it matters if they are, personally. A lot more people watch 60 Minutes than read The New York Times. Time to get out the Rolodexes and call CBS again...