I share your mmmmmm! The smell is a stench and getting worse.
"Earlier this year, though, Kerry aides raised the exact points the memo seemed to address."
Hmm indeed. If true, could indicate that Kerry/McAuliffe were fashioning the debate early on along the lines of these memos, and that they knew of the memos whenever "Earlier" is.
I suppose if one wanted to do research, a way would be to see when the "Bush failed an order to take a physical" meme popped up first. That angle, about an "order" to do it, seems unique to the CBS memos.