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11:00 AM ET, September 7, 2006

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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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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
BUBBA GOES BALLISTIC ON ABC ABOUT ITS DAMNING 9/11  —  MOVIE  —  INSISTS NET PULL DRAMA  —  A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made.
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise 9/11 Mini-Series  —  Three members of the Clinton administration have written the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, ABC's parent, to complain that the network's coming two-part miniseries "The Path to 9/11" is fraught with factual errors and fabrications.
Washington Post:
President Shifts Argument, Catches Critics Off Guard  —  With a series of forceful speeches on terrorism and a dramatic announcement that he has sent top-tier terrorism suspects to the Guantanamo Bay prison, President Bush this week has demonstrated anew the power of even a weakened commander …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
President Moves 14 Held in Secret to Guantánamo  —  President Bush said Wednesday that 14 high-profile terror suspects held secretly until now by the Central Intelligence Agency — including the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks — had been transferred to the detention center …
Washington Post:
Secret World of Detainees Grows More Public
Associated Press:
Bush Admits the CIA Runs Secret Prisons
Discussion: Associated Press and Media Needle
Associated Press:
U.S. Senate panel postpones vote on Bolton nomination as U.N. ambassador  —  WASHINGTON A U.S. Senate panel postponed a vote scheduled for Thursday on the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador.  —  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, a Republican …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Vote on Rumsfeld fizzling out in Senate  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats pushed for a vote Wednesday calling for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to be fired, but Republicans moved to head them off.  Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., submitted the resolution, which blasted the Bush administration's Iraq policy.
Discussion: The Democratic Daily and Hot Air
Los Angeles Times:
Democrats Act Out an Episode of `Everyone Loves Lieberman'  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Lieberman, the rebuked Connecticut Democrat, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for the first time since last month's humiliating defeat in his home-state primary.  And if it's possible …
Discussion: Sirotablog and Bull Moose
Matthew Yglesias:
Divides  —  Kevin Drum was making the argument the other day that Democrats aren't really divided about national security issues.  There's something to what he's saying, but I also think it's problematic in a variety of ways.  I guess I'll try to do an opus on this subject at some point …
All Spin Zone:
UPDATED: 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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L. Brent Bozell III / Media Research Center:
Compelling "Path to 9/11"  —  To mark the fifth anniversary …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Angry Bear
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 …
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BBC:
Blair confirms plan to stand down
Discussion: On Deadline and Pajamas Media
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.
Discussion: RightWinged.com and Hot Air
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Iraq takes control of military from U.S.  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition forces handed over control of Iraq's armed forces command to the government Thursday, a move that U.S. officials have hailed as a crucial milestone on the country's difficult road to independence.
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Elena Becatoros / Associated Press:
Iraq to take control of armed forces
Discussion: Say Anything and Seeing the Forest
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
One Leak and a Flood of Silliness  —  Conspiracy theories flourish in politics, and most of them have no more basis than spring training hopes for the Chicago Cubs.  —  Whenever things turn dicey for Republicans, they complain about the "liberal media" sabotaging them.
Shannon McCaffrey / Associated Press:
War turns southern women away from GOP  —  MACON, Ga. - President Bush's once-solid relationship with Southern women is on the rocks.  "I think history will show him to be the worst president since Ulysses S. Grant," said Barbara Knight, a self-described Republican since birth and the mother of three.
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 …
Newt Gingrich / Opinion Journal:
Bush and Lincoln  —  Echoes of the past in today's strategic mistakes. … WASHINGTON—Five years have passed since the horrific attack on our American homeland, and, still, there is one serious, undeniable fact we have yet to confront: We are, today, not where we wanted to be and nowhere near where we need to be.
Discussion: The Corner
Mark Landler / New York Times:
On Austrian TV, a True Story of Captivity  —  She did not answer all the questions, let alone dispel all the mysteries.  But Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian schoolgirl held captive in a windowless cellar for eight years before she escaped two weeks ago, went public on Wednesday with a revealing, often harrowing account of her ordeal.
Discussion: Althouse
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 …
Discussion: TalkLeft and A Blog For All
 
 
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