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President Discusses Creation of Military Commissions to Try Suspected Terrorists — Fact Sheet: Bringing Terrorists to Justice — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thanks for the warm welcome. Welcome to the White House. Mr. Vice President, Secretary Rice, Attorney General Gonzales …
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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.
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.
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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.
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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" …
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.
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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:
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Ben-Veniste rips ABC's fakeumentary over inaccuracies — Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the 9/11 commission rips ABC over their many false representation of the 9/11 commission report and the use of it to market their 9/11 mini-series as the definitive account of the 9/11 tragedy.
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Dean Barnett: My Concerns with "The Path to 9/11"
Dean Barnett: My Concerns with "The Path to 9/11"
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NewsMax.com:
Iran's Ahmadinejad Coming to New York … UNITED NATIONS — U.N. officials tell NewsMax.com "they expect" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to travel to New York City to attend the 2006 General Assembly. — The controversial Iranian leader attended the 2005 GA and held several "colorful" news conferences during that visit.
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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 …
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Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Lung Problems Rife Among WTC Responders — NEW YORK — Nearly 70 percent of the rescue and cleanup workers who toiled in the dust and fumes at ground zero have had trouble breathing, and many will probably be sick for the rest of their lives, doctors said Tuesday in releasing results of the biggest Sept. 11 health study yet.
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Sheldon Rampton / Firedoglake:
Breathless Audacity: How the White House Betrayed the Real Heroes of 9/11
Breathless Audacity: How the White House Betrayed the Real Heroes of 9/11
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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 …
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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 …
The Blotter:
Variety of Interrogation Techniques Said to Be Authorized by CIA — Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: — While President Bush today would not divulge the details of the interrogation techniques that have been used on high-value detainees, such as the 9/11 attacks architect Khalid Sheikh Mohamed …
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 …
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.
New York Post:
SHE LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD TO GO POTTY — E-mail katiecbs@nypost.com . — KATIE COURIC last night underwent her second on-air colonoscopy. — Watching the procedure was not a horribly painful event. Nor was it an experience I would volunteer to repeat any time soon.
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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 …
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Marcus Baram / radaronline.com:
THE ROVE LESS TRAVELED — Presidential pitbull Karl Rove has built his political career retailing his opponents' dirty laundry, but that hasn't stopped him from mounting a fierce campaign against an upcoming bio that delves a little too deeply into details of his own personal life.
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.
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 …