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2:05 PM ET, September 9, 2006

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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 …
Andrew Gumbel / Independent:   Saddam had no link with al-Qa'ida, US Senate concludes
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Senate finds no al-Qaida-Saddam link
Discussion: True Blue Liberal and Say Anything
Los Angeles Times:
ABC Stands By Its 9/11 Story — Almost  —  After minor edits in response to Democratic critics, the miniseries will air as scheduled.  It's already set off a bitter election-year dispute.  —  Walt Disney Co.'s ABC is forging ahead with plans to air a miniseries starting Sunday despite controversy …
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Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
ABC follows a path to shame  —  SURVEYING the smoking ruin that is ABC's reputation after the "The Path to 9/11" debacle, it's hard to know whether you're looking at the consequence of unadulterated folly or of a calculated strategy that turned out to be too clever by half.
Discussion: The News Blog and Think Progress
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Hugh Hewitt: "Dave, from Minnesota"
Discussion: Right Thoughts and Wizbang
New York Post:   9/11 MOVIE  —  FURY SPURS ABC TO ALTER OSAMA SCENE
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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Washington Post:
WASHINGTON IN BRIEF  —  Chertoff Urges Better Security At Ports, Chemical Plants
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
"HE WOULD FIRE THE NEXT PERSON THAT SAID THAT"....Today …
Discussion: The Reaction and The RBC
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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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Body Count in Baghdad Nearly Triples
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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Michael van der Galien / Liberty and Justice:
Co-Blogger Fighting For His Life  —  This post will stay on top throughout the entire weekend.  —  One of the co-bloggers here, at Liberty and Justice, Isaac Schrodinger is currently involved in the fight of his life.  Better said: a fight for his life.  —  As all of you who have read …
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Isaac Schrödinger:   How The Time Was Set  —  I started getting ready for the big …
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 …
Paul A. Gigot / Opinion Journal:
'Most People Want Us to Win'  —  A president in the fray, more Truman than LBJ.  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — Speaker Nancy Pelosi?  —  "That's not going to happen," snaps the president of the United States, leaning across his desk in his airborne office.  He had been saying that he hoped …
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
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 …
CNN:
Public expects gridlock if Democrats pick up seats  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Americans foresee "more gridlock" in government if Democrats take over the House and/or the Senate after elections this fall, a CNN poll shows.  —  And while the poll shows a majority of Americans would favor probes …
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.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Eschaton
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 …
Discussion: Tammy Bruce
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Lieberman Points Out a Turnabout by Lamont  —  Ned Lamont, who this week chastised Senator Joseph I. Lieberman for his public rebuke of President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, wrote to Mr. Lieberman at the time praising the eloquence of his speech on the Senate floor.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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