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Max Blumenthal / huffingtonpost.com:
Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception — Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air, the network is suddenly under siege. On Tuesday, ABC was forced to concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary."
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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 — Nothing else will do at this point, it seems: … The message sent out this afternoon by DNC Executive Director Tom McMahon also ended with a call for ABC "to keep this cheap right-wing miniseries off our airwaves."
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Greg Sargent / electioncentral.tpmcafe.com:
In Letter, Albright And Berger Demand Kean Get ABC To Kill Film — We've just obtained a letter that Madeleine Albright and Samuel Berger have just sent to 9/11 Commission chair Tom Kean, demanding that Kean use his pull with ABC to get the network to kill "The Path to 9/11."
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Houston Chronicle:
Fabricating history — ABC docudrama on 9/11 jettisons accuracy in favor of fictional sensationalism — With national security and the war on terror again in the spotlight as the midterm congressional elections near, intense political scrutiny is focused on the ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11 …
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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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:DONALD RUMSFELD AND PLANNING FOR THE IRAQ WAR: Today's issue …
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Rules of Evidence — A new Senate report on Iraq and al Qaeda ignores everything which gets in the way of its conclusions. — ONCE AGAIN headlines from media outlets around the country declare "No Saddam, al-Qaeda link." This time the news cycle is being fed by the release of two reports …
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David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Panel Releases Report on Iraq Intelligence — The Senate Intelligence Committee said today that there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein had prewar ties to Al Qaeda and one of the terror organization's most notorious members, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. — The report, sure to intensify …
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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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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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Time to Take Away Disney's Political Candy — I looked through the FEC filings this morning, and found some interesting and expected information about Disney's chief, Robert Iger. Though he gives generously to both parties, Robert Iger isn't a wingnut. He's a neoliberal businessman …
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Body Count in Baghdad Nearly Triples — Morgue's Revised Toll for August Undermines Claims by Leaders of Steep Drop in Violence — Baghdad's morgue almost tripled its count for violent deaths in Iraq's capital during August from 550 to 1,536, authorities said Thursday …
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 …
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
Why We Cannot Rely on Moderate Muslims — The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna. — According to Dr. Daniel Pipes, Omar Ahmad, the long-serving chairman of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, reportedly told a crowd of California Muslims in July 1998 …
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