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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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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 …
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 …
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.
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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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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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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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Obsessive Clenis Disorder — All through his presidency, I wondered why the NY Times was so obsessed with Clinton's manly member but I assumed they would get over it once he left office. I was wrong. A couple of months ago they spent untold man hours a large p[iece of ront page real estate figuring …
Taylor Marsh:
John Kerry Blasts ABC's Desperate Docudrama — cross-posted at Firedoglake and Huffington Post … So, after Bill Clinton got through ripping ABC and Republicans, with a little help from his lawyers, I started thinking. What does John Kerry think about "Path to 9/11"?
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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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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 …
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.
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 …
Daily Mail:
Muslim groups infiltrated by 7/7 bombers had huge govt grants — Government grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds were handed out to Muslim organisations infiltrated by the July 7 suicide bombers. — Huge chunks of taxpayers' money were given to four Leeds-based institutions …
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