Pols pound 'Path'  —  Under fire, ABC mulls yanking mini  —  "The Path to 9/11" is looking a lot like "The Reagans, Part II."  —  Bill Clinton loyalists are demanding wholesale changes to the upcoming miniseries — and while ABC is making some snips, the alterations, insiders say, may not please the Dems.

Al-Qaeda video takes credit for 9/11  —  A new videotape aired on Aljazeera television has shown Osama bin Laden and senior Al-Qaeda members meeting with some of the men who carried out the September 11 attacks against the US in 2001.  —  The 90-minute video apparently shows Bin Laden …

U.S. Politicians Should Focus On Tehran, Netanyahu Says  —  NEW YORK - Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of an American tour repositioning himself for a return to the Israeli premiership, told an audience in New York yesterday that President Bush is preparing to ditch the United Nations …

Armitage On CIA Leak: 'I Screwed Up'  —  CBS Exclusive: Interview With Man Who 'Outed' CIA Agent Valerie Plame  —  (CBS) In an exclusive interview with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, Richard Armitage, once the No. 2 diplomat at the State Department, couldn't be any blunter.

Lawyers and G.O.P. Chiefs Resist Proposal on Tribunal  —  The Bush administration's proposal to bring leading terrorism suspects before military tribunals met stiff resistance Thursday from key Republicans and top military lawyers who said some provisions would not withstand legal scrutiny …

Lamont Criticizes Lieberman's 1998 Rebuke of Clinton Over Affair  —  Ned Lamont, Connecticut's Democratic Senate candidate, has sharply criticized Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's public rebuke of former President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, suggesting this week …

A Triumph for Transparency in Government  —  Tonight I'm proud to report that the Senate unanimously passed S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.  —  The passage of this legislation is a triumph for transparency in government, for fiscal discipline …

Conservatives Help Wal-Mart, and Vice Versa  —  As Wal-Mart Stores struggles to rebut criticism from unions and Democratic leaders, the company has discovered a reliable ally: prominent conservative research groups like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute.

Interrogation Methods Rejected by Military Win Bush's Support  —  Many of the harsh interrogation techniques repudiated by the Pentagon on Wednesday would be made lawful by legislation put forward the same day by the Bush administration.  And the courts would be forbidden from intervening.

Whitman: 9/11 health woes are city's fault  —  Former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman is blaming the city for not forcing Ground Zero workers to wear respirators, prompting a fiery response from the city's top lawyer.  —  In a "60 Minutes" interview to air Sunday …

Iraq: A Civil War We Can Still Win  —  As the Democrats turn themselves into the antiwar party, as popular support for the war continues to sink, as some who initially signed on to the war now heap scorn on the entire Iraqi project, the question of immediate withdrawal must be confronted.