I understand your point, but if you read the transcript of Mik's story it can be parsed as saying that the 101 spent some time at al Qaqaa, found some stuff, moved on. It does not specifically say that they searched for and found no Cemtex, and concluded the Cemtex had been removed. I'm just not convinced, based on the NBC transcript, that this absolutely contradicts and discredits the NYT story in a way to make it irrelevant.
"The U.S. Army was at the site one day after the liberation and the weapons were already gone," a top Republican blasted from Washington late Monday.