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Jennifer Nix / Firedoglake:
If Only I Had An ABC-Approved Press Pass — ABC is clearly feeling some heat over their fictionalized drama, "The Path to 9/11," set to air on September 10th and 11th. After pulling the public blog from the movie's web site and stonewalling progressive and liberal bloggers late last week …
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Judd / Think Progress:
Richard Clarke Blasts Key Scene In ABC's 9/11 Docudrama — On September 10 and 11, ABC is planning to air a "docudrama" called Path to 9/11, billed by writer Cyrus Nowrasteh as "an objective telling of the events of 9/11." — The first night of Path to 9/11 has a dramatic scene …
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louise.house.gov:
Slaughter Calls for ABC to Come Clean on New 9-11 Docudrama — Divisive and Politicized Accounts of September 11th Attacks and National Security Issues Endanger Nation — Washington, DC - Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY-28), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee …
Jeff Stein / CQ.com:
ABC Docudrama Sparks 9/11 Spat — The docudrama that ABC will air next week commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks seems likely to revive some long-running disputes over whether the Clinton or Bush administration has more to answer for in neglecting indications of a pending al Qaeda attack on the United States.
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New York Times:
U.S. Strategy Shifts Focus From Al Qaeda — The White House today released an updated version of its plan for combating terrorism that focused more on decentralized networks of extremists than on Al Qaeda and that singled out Iran as a potential source of unconventional weapons for terrorist groups.
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White House:
President Discusses Global War on Terror — Washington, D.C. — Fact Sheet: The President's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism — In Focus: National Security — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. (Applause.) Thank you all. Please be seated. General Hendrix, thank you for the invitation to be here.
David Corn / The Nation:
What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA — In the spring of 2002 Dick Cheney made one of his periodic trips to CIA headquarters. Officers and analysts were summoned to brief him on Iraq. Paramilitary specialists updated the Vice President on an extensive covert action program in motion …
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David Corn:
What Valerie Wilson Really Did at the CIA — Another mystery solved. Last week a Newsweek excerpt from HUBRIS: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War, by Michael Isikoff and David Corn (and out this week), revealed that Richard Armitage was the original source …
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
HATEFUL 'MOVE' VS. JOE — SITE'S ANTI-JEWISH SLURS — A string of anti-Semitic rants about Sen. Joe Lieberman have popped up on the liberal MoveOn.org's open forum Web site, drawing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League. — It's the latest flap in the contentious race between Lieberman …
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Bull Moose:
Liberalism of Fools — The Moose objects to the pollution of the blogosphere. — For months, the Moose has observed that if you seek anti-Semitic and anti-Israel filth on the internet, look to the left side. Comment threads and diariists regularly rant against Jews and the Jewish state.
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USA Today:
Immigration drops off the political calendar — WASHINGTON — As Congress returns to work this week after a month-long break, little progress is imminent on an issue that leaders of both parties have identified as urgent: illegal immigration. — No meeting has been scheduled for House …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Condi takes historical analogies to an absurd level — Last week, top administration officials, including Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, equated the war in Iraq with fighting Nazis in World War II. As part of this analogy, the Bush gang made its critics out to be Neville Chamberlain …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Who Set the Wayback Machine for 1939? — With George W. Bush talking so much about Nazis and fascism, Donald Rumsfeld warning ominously against lily-livered appeasement and Dick Cheney quoting Franklin Roosevelt on the "dirty business" of war, one might worry that this direction-challenged administration …
Agence France Presse:
Nine arrested in Denmark's 'most serious' terrorism case — Nine men have been arrested in Denmark suspected of planning terrorist attacks, the Danish intelligence service PET said in what the second major anti-terrorism raid in less than a year. — Danish Justice Minister Lene Espersen …
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David Rohde / New York Times:
Afghan Symbol for Change Becomes a Symbol of Failure — LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — It began last summer. — On a July morning, Taliban gunmen shot dead the province's most powerful cleric as he walked to the main city mosque to lead morning prayers. Five months later …
Yoav Stern / Haaretz:
Peres: Once Shalit is released, Olmert and Abbas will open talks — Vice Premier Shimon Peres, speaking Tuesday amid reports of an imminent prisoner exchange deal for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, said that once Shalit were freed, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would invite Palestinian …
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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
New Republic Suspends an Editor for Attacks on Blog — A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. — Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel …
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Geoffrey Lean / Independent:
The hungry planet — As stocks run out and harvests fail, the world faces its worst crisis for 30 years — Food supplies are shrinking alarmingly around the globe, plunging the world into its greatest crisis for more than 30 years. New figures show that this year's harvest will fail …
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