They later re-inserted the censored material. But what would compel them to delete true information in the first place?
Fears for Barack Obama's political position, of course.
The news world, and the right blogosphere, from what I can tell, is still missing the story here.
The story is not that "Obama knew" that policies would be terminated. That's damning.
But what is hugely damning and very important going forward is not that Obama knew, but that Obama made this happen, and could unmake it with a phone call, but chooses not to.
The White House's pushback on this point demonstrates that they understand how important this part of Lisa Meyers' report is.
This also illustrates how politically compromised NBC News is -- that they would throw their reporter under the bus and redact her story even though it was 100% right. I imagine Lisa Meyers had to fight like a demon to get a true story reported by NBC.
Here's a cached version of the original, and here's that damning paragraph 3:
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