When you "looked online for the story CJR told me wasn't there -- well,
it wasn't there." Your premise is that while the story is being reported
in Europe, it's being hushed in the United States.

Yet--if the story being reported would lead you to expect to find it
online, then that would be as true of being reported in Europe is it
would be of being reported in the US.

So, following your logic, because you aren't finding anything online,
the story is being hushed in Europe as well--OR there isn't a story at
all and you or someone else is just making it up.