Top Items:
John / AMERICAblog:
Please help us plan Stage II: The attack on Disney/ABC starting on Tuesday Sept 12 — I've talked with some of the other organizers of the anti-Disney/ABC campaign, and we've decided, quite rightly, that if Disney/ABC runs this defamatory show tomorrow night, we are launching an all-out war against both companies.
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice
RELATED ITEMS:
John / AMERICAblog:
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 …
Discussion:
The Left Coaster, Daily Kos, Macsmind, Los Angeles Times, Pam's House Blend and Think Progress
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
ABC's Twisted 'Path to 9/11' — Factually shaky, politically inflammatory and photographically a mess, "The Path to 9/11" — ABC's two-part, five-hour miniseries tracing events leading up to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — has something not just to offend everyone but also to depress them.
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.
Jennifer Nix / Firedoglake:
What We Do Now — Despite the vociferous and righteous public outcry …
What We Do Now — Despite the vociferous and righteous public outcry …
Discussion:
Front Page Magazine
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Greenwald Propagates the Myth that "Path to 9/11″ Publicists …
Greenwald Propagates the Myth that "Path to 9/11″ Publicists …
David Johnston / New York Times:
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
Washington Post:
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 …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
Washington Post:
In a Pivotal Year, GOP Plans to Get Personal — Millions to Go to Digging Up Dirt on Democrats — Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues …
The American Thinker:
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).
Associated Press:
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.
New York Times:
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 …
Discussion:
The Heretik
PR Newswire:
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 …
Will Baude / Crescat Sententia:
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 …
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic Online:
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.
Andrea Elliott / New York Times:
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 …
Discussion:
TalkLeft
Hotline On Call:
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?