As of Friday morning, NBC News broadcasts had completely ignored an important scoop from the network’s own national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff that Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the Justice Department’s aggressive investigation of Fox News reporter James Rosen. Meanwhile, both CBS News and FNC provided on-air coverage of the new development. In an article for NBCNews.com on Thursday, Isikoff reported that Holder “signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a ‘possible co-conspirator’ in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News.” UPDATE: Nothing on the Friday or Saturday NBC Nightly News, but Isikoff finally got to report his scoop on the Sunday, May 26 NBC Nightly News.

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