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William Triplett / Variety:
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.
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Why Does the Left Hate "The Path to 9/11"? — On Sunday and Monday nights at 8 PM, ABC will air a five hour mini-series, "The Path to 9/11." I have watched it, and it is a riveting and in some respects horrifying recreation of the events from the hours before the first World Trade Center attack …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Harvey Keitel speaks out on Path to 9/11: "It turned out not all the facts were correct" — Harvey Keitel speaks out on "Showbiz Tonight about the controversy ABC's "Path to 9/11" has caused and in which he stars. — Video-WMP Video-QT (rough transcript-not full)
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Laying Blame and Passing the Buck, Dramatized — THE first words spoken on "The Path to 9/11" are at check-in at Logan Airport at 7:13 a.m. "O.K., Mr. Atta," an American Airlines agent says over the clickety-clack of computer keys. "One way, nonstop to Los Angeles, no return."
Reuters:
Democrats urge ABC to withdraw 9/11 movie — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid an election-year debate over who can best defend America, U.S. congressional Democrats urged ABC on Thursday to cancel a TV miniseries about the September 11 attacks that is critical of former Democratic President Bill Clinton and his top aides.
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New York Times:
Passions Flare as Broadcast of 9/11 Mini-Series Nears — Under growing pressure from Democrats and aides to former President Bill Clinton, ABC is re-evaluating and in some cases re-editing crucial scenes in its new mini-series "The Path to 9/11" to soften its portrait of the Clinton administration's pursuit …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC to Alter Show on Pre-9/11 Run-Up — ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday.
Think Progress:
New Target: Disney Chairman George Mitchell — Over 50,000 ThinkProgress readers have written ABC in the last 48 hours about "The Path to 9/11." We're going to keep the pressure on ABC, but we're also broadening our focus today to the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC.
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC: '9/11' mini 'fictional' — ABC issued a defense Thursday of its controversial miniseries "The Path to 9/11," which has come under fire from members of the Clinton administration. — The network released a statement saying that the five-hour telefilm, which airs Sunday and Monday nights …
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John / AMERICAblog:
Senate Democratic leadership threatens Disney with legal and legislative sanctions
Senate Democratic leadership threatens Disney with legal and legislative sanctions
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Aljazeera:
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 …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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.
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Marcia Kramer / wcbstv.com:
Documents: Feds, City Knew Of Ground Zero Toxins — (CBS) NEW YORK CBS 2 Exclusive: Stunning proof has been uncovered that the government knowingly put New Yorkers in harm's way after 9/11. — CBS 2 News has obtained documents revealing that Lower Manhattan was reopened a few weeks following …
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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 …
New York Times:
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.
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Daniel Freedman / New York Sun:
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 …
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
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 …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
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 …
Senator Bill Frist:
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 …
CBS News:
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.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
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.