memeorandum: What Dropoff? August Death Total in Baghdad Morgue Triples (FromTheFrontlines)

7:30 AM ET, September 7, 2006

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David E. Sanger / New York Times:

A Challenge From Bush to Congress — In calling for public war-crime trials at Guantánamo Bay, President Bush is calculating that with a critical election just nine weeks away, neither angry Democrats nor nervous Republicans will dare deny him the power to detain, interrogate and try suspects his way.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Agonist, The News Blog, The Heretik, Say Anything and Dependable Renegade

Spencer Ackerman / The New Republic:

KSM'S EXCELLENT GITMO ADVENTURE: — It's huge, huge news that Bush is shipping 9/11 architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, KSM deputy Ramzi bin Al Shibh, and a dozen other high-level Al Qaeda figures from the CIA's so-called "black sites"—that is, the secret prison complex around the world—to Guantánamo Bay.

Discussion: Associated Press, american footprints, Ezra Klein, Andrew Sullivan, Hit and Run and AMERICAN FUTURE

CNN:

Bush: CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The CIA operates secret prisons abroad for holding key suspects in the war on terror, President Bush acknowledged Wednesday. — Though Bush said the United States never tortures suspects, "alternative" …

David Stout / New York Times:

C.I.A. Detainees Sent to Guantánamo — President Bush said today that 14 suspected terrorists held in secret locations by the C.I.A., including some who were deeply involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and other notorious assaults on Americans, are being transferred to the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba to stand trial.

Discussion: The Left Coaster, Talking Points Memo and Discourse.net

Washington Post:
Defense Department News Briefing on Detainee Policies

Discussion: Balkinization and The Belgravia Dispatch

Hindrocket / Power Line:
MISREPORTING THE NEWS, AGAIN

Discussion: Associated Press, New York Times, Captain's Quarters, Stop The ACLU and Shakespeare's Sister

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
President Moves 14 Held in Secret to Guantánamo

Discussion: TalkLeft and The Bullwinkle Blog

Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Officials Relieved Secret Is Shared

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Josh White / Washington Post:
New Rules of Interrogation Forbid Use of Harsh Tactics

Discussion: PoliPundit.com and Balkinization

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Clinton Administration Officials Assail ABC's 'The Path to 9/11' — Top officials of the Clinton administration have launched a preemptive strike against an ABC-TV "docudrama," slated to air Sunday and Monday, that they say includes made-up scenes depicting them as undermining attempts to kill Osama bin Laden.

Discussion: AMERICAblog, skippy the bush kangaroo and Riehl World View

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Sheldon Rampton / Firedoglake:
Breathless Audacity: How the White House Betrayed the Real Heroes of 9/11

Discussion: Norwegianity

All Spin Zone:

BREAKING: Did Scholastic Yank 'Path to 9/11' Propaganda? — Two days ago, I wrote about Scholastic Books catapulting the "Path to 9/11" propaganda. More than 400 comments were made at a crossposting that I did on Daily Kos, the vast majority of the comments containing excellent suggestions for action …

Discussion: Open Letter to ABC

Patrick Wintour / Guardian:

The day Blair accused his chancellor of blackmail — An all-out power struggle between the chancellor and the prime minister, culminating with allegations of blackmail by Tony Blair and a ferocious shouting match between the two men, appeared last night to have forced Mr Blair to publicly declare …

Discussion: James Wolcott and The Left Coaster

FromTheFrontlines:

What Dropoff? August Death Total in Baghdad Morgue Triples — We took an interesting phone call today from an official at the Baghdad morgue. We get these calls every day - a daily tally of the violence. But this one was particularly sobering. — It turns out the official toll …

Discussion: The Reaction and Think Progress

Elena Becatoros / Associated Press:

Iraq to take control of armed forces — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq will take control of its armed forces command on Thursday, a major step on its painful path toward independence and an essential move before international troops can eventually withdraw. — Despite the progress …

Discussion: Say Anything and Seeing the Forest

Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:

How We Dummies Succeed — If you're looking for the action in education, forget the Ivy League. Talk instead to Anthony Zeiss, president of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte. It has six campuses and 70,000 students taking classes in everything from remedial English to computer networking.

Discussion: The Buck Stops Here and joannejacobs.com

iranfocus.com:

Iran says U.S., Israel ordered September 11 attacks — Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 - The Supreme Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accused the Bush Administration and the Israeli security service Mossad of ordering the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, DC.

Discussion: Kobayashi Maru, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Blue Crab Boulevard and Jihad Watch

Arnold Kling / TCS Daily:

Naming Our Enemies — "Ideally, in the case of a right (for example, the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures) that could be asserted against government measures for protecting national security, one would like to locate the point at which a slight expansion in the scope …

CBS News:

Poll: Many Americans Feel Less Safe — Five Years After 9/11, Many Feel Terror Threat Has Grown — (CBS) Do Americans feel safer now than before 9/11? For many, the answer is no, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. — Fifty-four percent of Americans say they generally feel safe …

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