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It's Susannah Meadows/Newsweek, in print, she reports:

Nifong "hinted to NEWSWEEK that blood and urine tests of the woman would reveal the presence of a date-rape drug."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12442765/site/newsweek/

Susannah was more emphatic and definitive on FOX - giving an actual quote from Nifong. She said on FOX that Nifong said, suppose I have a toxicology report showing the woman was drugged.

As I said, if true, this makes the way he handled the case even more troubling. It raises another whole host of questionable acts by the DA.

Regarding whether Nifong hinted there was a toxicology report that would show a date rape drug.

This from the Newsweek story you linked:

"When the case first broke in the press, Nifong, a white man who is running for election in a racially mixed county, hinted to NEWSWEEK that blood and urine tests of the woman would reveal the presence of a date-rape drug."

I wonder whether this is just sloppy editing by Newsweek, or has the Newsweek reporter Susannah Meadows now changed her story, because that is NOT what I recall seeing Susannah Meadows tell Fox.

I remember seeing her on Fox at that time, and I recall her explaining the "hint" by saying NOT that Nifong claimed he had a toxicology report showing a date rape drug, but rather Nifong hinted to her "suppose I had a witness that would say..."

I was not the only Freeper who saw that interviiew. Another poster, Protect the Bill of Rights, saw the same interview I saw:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1620719/posts?page=130#130

"The Newsweek chick said Nifong said [paraphrased] "What would you say if I had a witness who saw her arrive sober, took a drink and then blah, blah, blah.."
I assumed he was talking about that stellar witness-Kim."

I'm glad the Newsweak reporterette finally explained what the "hint" was she had been talking about.

It seems clear that Nifong was talking about witness testimony, and not a toxicology report. Maybe Nifong has a toxicology report somewhere hidden in his back pocket, but he was not alluding to such a report in making his "hint" to Newsweak.