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10:35 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.
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 …
L. Brent Bozell III / Media Research Center:
Compelling "Path to 9/11"  —  To mark the fifth anniversary …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Angry Bear
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Why It Matters  —  Dean Barnett, of Hugh Hewitt's blog …
Discussion: Unclaimed Territory and Pandagon
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 …
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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 …
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.
Josh White / Washington Post:
New Rules of Interrogation Forbid Use of Harsh Tactics
Discussion: Balkinization and PoliPundit.com
Washington Post:
Secret World of Detainees Grows More Public
Associated Press:
Bush Admits the CIA Runs Secret Prisons
Discussion: Associated Press and Media Needle
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Officials Relieved Secret Is Shared
Discussion: PunditGuy
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 …
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
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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.
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 …
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.
Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters.org:
Chris Matthews to Green Candidate Calling for Bush Execution: 'I Like You Already'  —  MSNBC's Chris Matthews invited on New York gubernatorial Green Party candidate Malachy McCourt, to state his case but when the brother of Angela's Ashes author, Frank McCourt, suggested George W. Bush …
Discussion: Right Wing News, Power Line and Hot Air
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
MSNBC:
Army shuns system to combat RPGs  —  Experts agree it might help save lives, so why isn't it in the field?  —  NBC VIDEO … WASHINGTON -  —  Rocket-propelled grenades, or RPGs, are a favorite weapon of insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.  They are cheap, easy to use and deadly.
Discussion: Defense Tech and QandO
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.
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 …
Discussion: TalkLeft and A Blog For All
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
Kristen Breitweiser / The Huffington Post:
A Letter to Ann Coulter  —  But for the murder of our husbands on 9/11, we would not have gone to Washington to fight for an independent 9/11 investigation.  Our involvement in national security would have begun and ended at the voting booth, like most citizens.
 
 
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