Last week's Newsweek included the article The Lady and the Veep. Here's an excerpt:

"A NEWSWEEK investigation shows that Cheney's national-security team has been actively challenging Rice's Iran strategy in recent months. "We hear a completely different story coming out of Cheney's office, even now, than what we hear from Rice on Iran," says a Western diplomat whose embassy has close dealings with the White House. Officials from the veep's office have been openly dismissive of the nuclear negotiations in think-tank meetings with Middle East analysts in Washington, according to a high-level administration official who asked for anonymity because of his position. Since Tehran has defied two U.N. resolutions calling for a suspension of its uranium-enrichment program, "there's a certain amount of schadenfreude among the hard-liners," says a European diplomat who's involved in the talks but would not comment for the record. And NEWSWEEK has learned that the veep's team seems eager to build a case that Iran is targeting Americans not just in Iraq but along the border of its other neighbor, Afghanistan.

In the last few weeks, Cheney's staff have unexpectedly become more active participants in an interagency group that steers policy on Afghanistan, according to an official familiar with the internal deliberations. During weekly meetings of the committee, known as the Afghanistan Interagency Operating Group, Cheney staffers have been intensely interested in a single issue: recent intelligence reports alleging that Iran is supplying weapons to Afghanistan's resurgent Islamist militia, the Taliban, according to two administration officials who asked for anonymity when discussing internal meetings."

So. Cheney and his boys want to connect Iran and the Taliban. Following this revelation, we get:

ABC's Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban

The Associated Press' Iran Aids Afghanistan But May Have Helped Taliban Too

NBC's Iran Is Arming Taliban

Each of these three quickly added a source to the headline after the Newsweek article hit. The ABC piece now read "Document: Iran Caught...," the AP's reads "Iran Aids ... Taliban Too, says NATO General," and NBC's reads "Iran Is Arming Taliban, U.S. Envoy Claims."

But despite these addendums, this still sounds like Judith Miller all over again. How long until the national press stops buying everything fed to it by this administration and its gophers?