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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.

If Nifong is bluffing about the toxicology report he's only hurting himself, because come trial time, he won't have anything to show for it.

These kinds of bluffs are the what defense attorneys do, not prosecutors. And i do think it's a bluff.

He's cornered himself. Even if Kim decides not to testify (for one reason or another), Nifongs already promised to bring this case to trial on Greta's show (and i think he's promised the NBP's too). How's he gonna get out of that one?