Jackson 'Smoking Gun' Revealed?

Many details of the case remain sealed and secret, under court order. But now, says CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes on The Early Show, the Web site TheSmokingGun.com has combined reports from the past year, including some from CBS News, with what the site says is a look at some never-released police reports and grand jury transcripts.

"In total," says Bill Bastone of TheSmokingGun.com, "they kind of provide the first account of exactly what the case is about."

Those reports, according to the Web site, provide intimate detail into the alleged sexual molestation.

However, says Hughes, they also point out inconsistencies in the accusations from the young cancer patient and his family.

The Web site says the alleged victim told police specific details of the molestations.

The first time, the boy said Jackson got him quote, "kinda drunk," then started touching him in what Bastone says "essentially becomes a seduction."

But, Hughes reports, something new that emerges in TheSmokingGun.com documents is the importance of the alleged victim's younger brother as a witness. He gives detailed accounts of seeing his brother being abused, when the older boy was asleep or passed out.

"The younger brother," says Bastone, "tells investigators that he sees Mr. Jackson with his hand in his brother's pajamas..."

Police went back to Jackson's ranch last month to confirm the brother's line of sight, Hughes notes.

Also, the documents reportedly show that the younger brother provided exact locations and descriptions of pornographic magazines and Web sites Jackson is alleged to have shown both boys in his bedroom when they first met, five years ago.

Almost too perfectly, points out Bastone, who wrote TheSmokingGun.com story:
"The government would have you believe that the younger brother has the ability to recall events fairly clearly and deliver details of events of things that happened in the summer of 2000, when at the time he was a 9-year-old boy."

By contrast, Hughes says, both boys are hazy on dates of events that happened just a few months prior.

Also, one other incident the Web site reports on, about a plane ride that the family took with Jackson, is disturbing on the details it provides about both Jackson and the alleged victim's mother.

"She says," Bastone remarks, "her son is asleep with his head on Mr. Jackson's shoulder. And she says Mr. Jackson was turning and licking her son's head. Now that, of course, raises the question of what did the mother do? She said she didn't do anything, because she thought she was dreaming. That's a strange response."

But CBS News Legal Analyst Wendy Murphy says the "blame-the-mother" defense won't work with all these details. "If there's DNA evidence and fingerprints from this child and Michael Jackson found on pornographic magazines, it doesn't matter. The mother could be the Wicked Witch of the West; this is going to be a slam-dunk case against Michael Jackson."

The documents the Smoking Gun reported on do not include DNA or fingerprint evidence, and the site has not posted the actual documents.

"I'm a veteran reporter," Bastone says. "These didn't arrive in the mail; we knew the sources."

But he's not revealing them, Hughes says, and what's unclear is who leaked the documents, this close to the trial, and why.