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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

Captured document::  AP employee spied for Saddam  —  Document (link) dated July 25 2000 is a report from an Iraqi Intelligence officer to different Iraqi Intelligence Directorates talking about information provided to them from a trusted source that works in the Associated Press (AP).

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 …

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?

Families Of Kidnapped Persian Jews Sue Khatami In US Court  —  Law suit alleges visiting Iranian implemented anti-Semitic policy of torture and imprisonment  —  NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Seven Jewish-Iranian families have filed suit in an American federal court against former President …

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.

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 …

Sen. Lieberman Violates His Own Privacy Policy  —  Seems that way: … He forgot: "(4) in a laughable attempt to discredit a political opponent to whom I may have already lost in a primary election by leaking an email of his to the New York Times.": … Which "campaign aide" violated Sen. Lieberman's privacy policy?

More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip  —  America's newest Muslims arrive in the afternoon crunch at John F. Kennedy International Airport.  Their planes land from Dubai, Casablanca and Karachi.  They stand in line, clasping documents.  They emerge, sometimes hours later …

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.