Bush plan would withhold terror evidence  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush pushed a hard line Wednesday on trying terror suspects through military tribunals, exhorting Congress to allow evidence to be withheld from a defendant if necessary to protect classified information.

House Democrats Demand Accuracy in ABC 9/11 Film  —  Representatives John Conyers, Jr., John Dingell, Jane Harman, and Louise Slaughter today called on ABC to fix the inaccuracies in its mini-series The Path to 9/11, before its scheduled airing on September 10th and 11th.  Read the letter:

Fury as academics claim 9/11 was 'inside job'  —  The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an "inside job", according to a group of leading academics.  —  Around 75 top professors and leading scientists believe the attacks were puppeteered by war mongers …

Republican Rift Over Wiretapping Widens  —  Party at Odds on Surveillance Legislation  —  Deepening Republican divisions over the future of President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program may jeopardize GOP leaders' hopes of making terrorism surveillance legislation a centerpiece of their final legislative push this month.

Rep. Harris Wins GOP Primary For U.S. Senate Seat in Florida  —  Shunned by party leaders and battered by repeated campaign controversies, Rep. Katherine Harris nonetheless held on to enough support from the state's Republican voters Tuesday to win Florida's Senate primary convincingly over three little-known candidates.

Democrats Nominate 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist in Florida (UPDATE: More Dem 9/11 Conspiracists!)  —  Democrats in Florida's 15th district have nominated a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to run for Congress.  —  Dr. Bob Bowman had 55 percent over 45 percent for John M. Kennedy.

Lobbying Probe Looks at Payments To DeLay's Wife  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's congressional lobbying-and-bribery investigation is looking into whether former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's wife received money from a lobbying firm for a no-show job, recent FBI interviews indicate.

Poll: Iraq war could wound GOP at polls  —  (CNN) — President Bush's unpopularity — due largely to the war in Iraq — seems likely to affect GOP candidates in congressional midterm elections in November, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.  —  Fifty-five percent of 1,004 Americans …

Announcing CIA Leak Investigation Book by Marcy Wheeler: We Need Your Help!  —  Update: Teddy just posted a diary on this over at Kos.  If you're a Daily Kos member, please go hit the recommend button! … If it hadn't been for the groundbreaking work of the blogosphere, and Marcy Wheeler …

Twenty-Seven New House Polls Indicate Democratic Takeover  —  Major poll dump—most important poll release on the House this cycle both thus far and by far.  These polls are all conducted by Constituent Dynamics, August 27-29.  They are done IVR style (automated telephone), are all likely voters …

Judge Hears Arguments on Federal Spying Program  —  In a lively oral argument lasting almost three hours, a federal judge in Manhattan indicated yesterday that he had serious reservations about the legality of a National Security Agency surveillance program that monitors the international communications of people in the United States.