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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 …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Phase II Report: Saddam Retained Banned Missiles, Biological Stocks
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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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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
SPINNING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC — What are the left's talking points for today on The Path to 9/11? — In the rarefied atmosphere of "respectable" (we have to call them something) lefty blogs, the drumbeat today will be over a post by Max Blumenthal at HuffPo that reveals the shocking truth about the …
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.
Washington Post:
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.
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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.
John / AMERICAblog:
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.
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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.
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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 …
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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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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.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Sherrod Brown for US Senate:
Congressman Sherrod Brown's Democratic National Radio Address — Good morning. This is Congressman Sherrod Brown, Ohio candidate for the United States Senate. — On Monday, our country marks a tragic day - - the five year anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Five years have passed, but the pain has not.
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