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7:55 PM ET, September 6, 2006

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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
High-Value Detainees Will Be Given Prisoner-of-War Status  —  President Bush Expected to Announce Major Reversal in Handling of Terror Suspects  —  ABC News has learned that President Bush will announce that high-value detainees now being held at secret CIA prisons will be transferred …
Associated Press:
C.I.A. Detainees Sent to Guantánamo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects — including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks — have been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.
Discussion: Power Line and TAPPED
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
"Significant news" coming in Bush speech today (Video added)  —  We actually got an inside tip about this earlier, but I sat on it because it wasn't confirmed.  Fox just reported, though, that Tony Snow told the press corps this morning that Bush will announce some "significant news" …
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.
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Here's the Administration's Cruel Treatment and Torture Authorization Act
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
Mr. Robert A. Iger / housedemocrats.gov:
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:
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Judd / Think Progress:
ABC Refuses to Provide Copies of Path to 9/11 to Clinton, Albright, Berger  —  ABC has been aggressively advancing its inaccurate and politically slanted miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," to the right wing.  Big players like Rush Limbaugh have been provided copies, as have obscure right-wing bloggers like Patterico.
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Dean Barnett: My Concerns with "The Path to 9/11"  —  I know this may not be a popular sentiment around here, but I'm uncomfortable with the upcoming miniseries, "The Path to 9/11."  Let me explain why.  —  In the conservative portion of the blogosphere, the film has occasioned much joyous ballyhoo.
Shaun Waterman / UPI:
SECURITY & TERRORISM  —  Analysis: Sept. 11 miniseries under fire
Discussion: Classical Values
Jaya Narain / Daily Mail:
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 …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
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.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Florida Primary: Winners and Losers  —  Florida voters made their primary picks yesterday.  The day brought few surprises but — as always — a handful of winners and losers.  (For complete results from Florida, click here.)  —  WINNERS  —  Sen. Bill Nelson (D): Rep. Katherine Harris' victory …
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG and Hotline On Call
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
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.
Discussion: Hot Air and IMAO
Brody Mullins / Wall Street Journal:
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.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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.
CNN:
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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
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 …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
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 …
 
 
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