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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Said to Find No Hussein Link to Terror Chief — The Central Intelligence Agency last fall repudiated the claim that there were prewar ties between Saddam Hussein's government and an operative of Al Qaeda, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to a report issued Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Iraq's Alleged Al-Qaeda Ties Were Disputed Before War — Links Were Cited to Justify U.S. Invasion, Report Says — A declassified report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence revealed that U.S. intelligence analysts were strongly disputing the alleged links …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Truth Of Senate Report — Now I know why journalists get their stories so wrong so often - they lack basic reading comprehension skills. With all the hoopla about the Senate Intelligence report supposedly saying there were no ties between Saddam and Terrorists (despite Iraq documents …
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Rules of Evidence — A new Senate report on Iraq and al Qaeda …
Rules of Evidence — A new Senate report on Iraq and al Qaeda …
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Stephanie Heinatz / Hampton Roads Daily Press:
Eustis chief: Iraq post-war plan muzzled — FORT EUSTIS — Months before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists from developing plans for securing a post-war Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
"HE WOULD FIRE THE NEXT PERSON THAT SAID THAT"....Today, via Orin Kerr, comes a remarkable interview with Brigadier General Mark Scheid, chief of the Logistics War Plans Division after 9/11, and one of the people with primary responsibility for war planning. Shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan …
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Washington Post:
WASHINGTON IN BRIEF — Chertoff Urges Better Security At Ports, Chemical Plants — The nation's homeland security chief urged Congress yesterday to approve plans to better protect seaports and chemical plants from terrorists — or risk another attack on the scale of those on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
DONALD RUMSFELD AND PLANNING FOR THE IRAQ WAR: Today's issue …
DONALD RUMSFELD AND PLANNING FOR THE IRAQ WAR: Today's issue …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
ABC Gets More Pressure to Toss 9/11 Film — NEW YORK (AP) — ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Former Clinton administration officials, historians and a Democratic petition with nearly 200,000 signatures urged the network to scrap the five-hour drama.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Meltdown: Dean, Berger, Albright, lefty historians demand "Path" be edited cancelled
Meltdown: Dean, Berger, Albright, lefty historians demand "Path" be edited cancelled
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Television Ad Shows Reagan Praising Webb In 1985 Speech — Democratic Senate candidate James Webb will launch his first television ad Monday, a 30-second tribute by former President Ronald Reagan, for whom Webb once served as Navy secretary. — The commercial shows Reagan, a Republican …
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Knight Ridder:
U.S. count of Baghdad deaths excludes car bombs, mortar attacks — BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials, seeking a way to measure the results of a program aimed at decreasing violence in Baghdad, aren't counting scores of dead killed in car bombings and mortar attacks as victims of the country's sectarian violence.
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Associated Press:
France: Int'l fleet won't employ force — France announced on Friday that the international naval force designated to patrol Lebanon's territorial waters would not be authorized to employ force to stop ships from entering or leaving Lebanon. — A spokesman for the French defense ministry …
Donna Abu-Nasr / Associated Press:
Saudi religious cops ban dog, cat sales — JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's religious police, normally tasked with chiding women to cover themselves and ensuring men attend mosque prayers, are turning to a new target: cats and dogs. — The police have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets …
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
F.B.I. Agents Question Accuracy of 9/11 Series — Two retired F.B.I. agents said today that they had rejected advisory roles on the disputed ABC mini-series, "The Path to 9/11," because of concerns about the program's accuracy. — One of the agents, Thomas E. Nicoletti …
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The GOP's Top 18 Pick-Up Opportunities In The House For 2006 — It's not shaping up to be a great year for the GOP, the Democrats definitely have a big edge, and quite frankly, this is a lean field. Still, the GOP does have some opportunities that we may be able to exploit.
Michael Powell / Washington Post:
9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply — Many Americans suspect U.S. government involvement or complicity — NEW YORK - He felt no shiver of doubt in those first terrible hours. — He watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and assumed al-Qaeda had wreaked terrible vengeance.