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U.S. drops banning media from body hunt — CNN filed suit for access to search for New Orleans' dead — HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans.
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Washington Post:
Death Toll of 10,000 Now Called Unlikely — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9 — City officials said Friday that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath may be far lower than originally feared, as troops and police shifted their attention from rescue of the living to recovery of those who died here in the past 11 days.
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Ed Driscoll / Ed Driscoll.com:
Katrina Snuff Films: This Is CNN — CNN's situational ethics swing into action again. … It's amusing to go back and look at the media's mindset back then: … If it wasn't necessary to show people plunging to their death, why is it necessary to show them after they drowned?
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Scott Ott / ScrappleFace:CNN Petitions to Dig Up Hastily-Buried Flood Victims
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:THE PRESS WANTS TO SHOW BODIES from Katrina. It didn't want …
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Michelle Malkin:
FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: SEEING IS BELIEVING — Tons of you are stunned, outraged, and sickened by the new Flight 93 Memorial, the "Crescent of Embrace." I called the architect responsible for the redesign, Paul Murdoch of Los Angeles, yesterday for comment. He did not return my call …
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The Liberal Avenger:
WINGNUT OUTRAGE OVER FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL — Let's build a memorial to the tragedy and heroism of 9/11's Flight 93 which crashed in a field in rural Shanksville in Western Pennsylvania! What a great idea! — A committee was formed of surviving 9/11 family members, people from the community and designers/architects.
Associated Press:
Gore airlifts victims from New Orleans — Former vice president chartered two private aircraft — KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.
Los Angeles Times:
A Barrier That Could Have Been — Congress OKd a project to protect New Orleans 40 years ago, but an environmentalist suit halted it. Some say it could have worked. — In the wake of Hurricane Betsy 40 years ago, Congress approved a massive hurricane barrier to protect New Orleans from storm surges that could inundate the city.
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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Embattled Brown Taken Off Katrina Duty — Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command Friday. — He will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice …
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Lara Jakes Jordan / San Diego Union-Tribune:FEMA Director Brown relieved of hurricane responsibilities
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Some GOP Legislators Hit Jarring Notes in Addressing Katrina — Some lawmakers are still struggling to find the sympathetic but diligent tone that a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina — and the lagging government response to its victims — would seem to call for.
The MinuteMan / JustOneMinute:
What's Race Got To Do With It? — Are racial tensions and divides a part of the New Orleans story? One might think so. Here, for example, is a story from the UPI telling us that the suburban police blocked the bridge leading from New Orleans across the Mississippi River to Gretna.
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Washington Post:
Gonzales Is Defended As Suitable for Court — Allies Call Attorney General a True Conservative — Supporters of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales have launched a campaign to rebut criticism that he is not reliably conservative enough to serve on the Supreme Court …
Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Eye of the Political Storm — A new NEWSWEEK poll suggests President Bush could become Katrina's next casualty. — Sept. 10, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina claimed her first political casualty Friday. Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, the federal disaster readiness and response agency …
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
The Bed Wetting Right? A.K.A. "So I'm a RINO. So Sue Me." — Tony Snow on the reaction to Hurricane Katrina: … At the risk of being accused of being a candidate for Depends, let's review some basic facts: — The head of the National Guard has acknowledged that the deployment …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Who's Your FEMA Flunky? — Reader g writes in with a fun game. Who's your FEMA flunky? If, like g, you're from Seattle then your regional FEMA person is qualified to be a FEMA flunky because he was:: … Luckily for me, my FEMA flunky, who of course is only an "acting" …
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Richard N. Haass / Slate:
Storm Warning — How the flood compromises U.S. foreign policy. — It has long been a tenet of American foreign policy that politics stop at the water's edge. The tradition is that too much is at stake to allow partisan interests to take precedence over the national interest.
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