Defamatory Sandy Berger scene in 9/11 show is THE culmination of the entire first half, it is IMPOSSIBLE to edit it out  —  Okay, I just watched the Sandy Berger scene.  It is beyond defamatory.  The reports you've read do not do it justice.  —  We are 1 hour 54 minutes into the film …

American Airlines to blame for 9/11, Disney/ABC movie falsely claims  —  I'm just wondering when American Airlines is going to realize that it's about to be defamed in the entire English-speaking world.  —  As I first noted yesterday, I have the entire "Path to 9/11" video.

To Hold Senate, G.O.P. Bolsters Its Most Liberal  —  With a barrage of television advertisements and the mobilization of its get-out-the-vote machine, the national Republican Party has lined up to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.

At a Secret Interrogation, Dispute Flared Over Tactics  —  Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman captured by the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was bloodied and feverish when a C.I.A. security team delivered him to a secret safe house in Thailand for interrogation in the early spring of 2002.

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.

Cheney's Power No Longer Goes Unquestioned  —  From those first moments five years ago when Secret Service agents burst into Vice President Dick Cheney's office on Sept. 11, lifted him off his feet and propelled him to the underground Presidential Emergency Operations Center …

Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold'  —  U.S. Steps Up Efforts, But Good Intelligence On Ground is Lacking  —  The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years.  Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world …

Unwinding Bush  —  How long will it take to fix his mistakes?  —  H istory judges good presidents by what they do, bad ones by how long they take to undo.  Although history hasn't yet caught up with President George W. Bush, midterm elections are about to—and those are often a referendum on presidential performance.

Nancy Reagan Asks Webb to Pull Ad With Her Husband  —  Former first lady Nancy Reagan on Friday asked Virginia Democratic Senate candidate James Webb to not use a television commercial that shows former president Ronald Reagan praising Webb, his former Navy secretary.

The Saturday Brunch  —  Dean and Rahm To Make Up? ...  Hagel/Snowe provide Senate Dems with bipartisan cover in rebuking Bush on Iraq intel ... Allen gets a Reagan assist in attempting to stop Webb's Reagan assist ... it's GOTV weekend in RI ... Tom Tancredo, the new conservative kingmaker?

TEACHING LAW AND THE SACRED TRUST  —  Over at PrawfsBlawg, Bobby Chesney asks whether it is appropriate— from a student's point of view— for a Professor to cancel classes in order to attend conferences and otherwise pursue their research agenda.  While I am unwilling to go quite so far …

Propaganda  —  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, was hired by the producers of the mini-series in July 2005 …

Man arrested in airport knife scare  —  ROMULUS, Mich. - A man with a one-way ticket to Yemen attempted to board a plane with a knife hidden in a book, authorities said.  —  Mohammed Ghanem, 21, of Hamtramck, was jailed Saturday on $500,000 after being arraigned on a charge of possessing a weapon in the sterile area of an airport.

Antiabortion Centers Offer Sonograms to Further Cause  —  On June 6, Cheryl Smith took her last $600 and drove her teenage daughter from Baltimore to Severna Park to get an abortion.  When they got there, a receptionist told them the clinic had changed hands.

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.

'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 …