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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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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush plan would withhold terror evidence — WASHINGTON - President Bush pushed a hard line Wednesday on trying terror suspects through military tribunals, exhorting Congress to allow evidence to be withheld from a defendant if necessary to protect classified information.
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 …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush acknowledges secret CIA prisons — WASHINGTON - 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.
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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.
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" …
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:Here's the Administration's Cruel Treatment and Torture Authorization Act
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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:
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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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Judd / Think Progress:
ABC Insider Assures Right-Wing Bloggers: 'The Message of the Clinton Admin Failures Remains Fully Intact' — ABC won't give President Clinton, Madeleine Albright or Sandy Berger a copy of their 9/11 docudrama, "The Path to 9/11." But there is virtually nothing about the film ABC won't share with the right-wing blogosphere.
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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.
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Judd / Think Progress:ABC Refuses to Provide Copies of Path to 9/11 to Clinton, Albright, Berger
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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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Sean-Paul Kelley / The Agonist:
Romney No Likey Khatami — Yesterday Gov. Mitt Romney barred former Iranian president Mohemmed Khatami from receiving any state security while visiting Massachusett, in particular Harvard and called him a terrorist: … What Gov. Mitt Romney did yesterday was not only childish and immature …
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.
Peter Riddell / Times of London:
Best defence against terrorism is a split with US, say voters — MOST people believe that the Blair Government's foreign policy has increased significantly the risk of terrorist attacks and now want Britain to distance itself from America and set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, according to a poll for The Times.
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 …
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Antiwar Message Travels From Texas to Washington — The antiwar activists who picketed near the president's ranch this summer traded dusty Texas for soggy Washington yesterday, when they set up camp near the White House to continue their vigil. — "Every day, we realize there is a war in Iraq …
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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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 …
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