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3:05 PM ET, September 10, 2006

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New York Post:
BILL SICS LEGAL EAGLES ON ABC  —  * LETTER: YANK 'DESPICABLE' FILM * CAST'S  —  ON-SET TURMOIL REVEALED  —  Bill Clinton's camp yesterday demanded that ABC can its controversial film "The Path to 9/11," due to air tonight - and in a scathing new letter accused the network of exploiting the tragedy for ratings.
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
It's too late to decide to attack Bin Laden, so let's attack this TV show.  —  ABC's "Path to 9/11," we're told, by those who want it yanked, portrays the Clinton adminstration making a strategic decision not to take out Bin Laden in a military attack.  With hindsight, after 9/11, it's easy to say that was the wrong strategic decision.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Does ABC/Disney Movie Include Bush Allowing Osama Bin Laden to Escape from Tora Bora?  —  (Graphic from our own twolf1.)  —  I am as furious as I can ever remember being at the moment.  LHP sent me a link this morning to a WaPo article, and I only got about seven paragraphs …
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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Video: Red State obtains preview copy of "Path to 9/11″
John / AMERICAblog:
Disney/ABC adds mock assassination of Bill Clinton to 9/11 flick
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos and The Agonist
WCBS-TV:
Rockefeller: Bush Duped Public On Iraq  —  Senator Says World Would Be Better Without Iraq Invasion  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts …
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Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Cheney Tells Russert He Hasn't Seen The Senate Intelligence Report  —  As I warned in my previous post, Cheney is out in full spin mode this morning when it comes to the rational for the Iraq war.  This is just an example from Meet the Press this morning of the spin he is trying to weave:
Amanda / Think Progress:
Rice: 'There Were Ties Going On Between Al Qaeda And Saddam Hussein'
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Dick Cheney / MSNBC:
Transcript for Sept. 10  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Good morning.  This is a special edition of MEET THE PRESS, marking the fifth anniversary of September 11.  And joining us for the first time in three years is the vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney.  —  Welcome back.  —  VICE PRES.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Matthew Yglesias:
Dreaming of the Caliphate  —  The President actually sort …
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Michael Sluss / The Roanoke Times:
Senate race a close one, poll suggests  —  Negative publicity has reduced George Allen's once-sizable lead to just 4 percentage points.  —  The controversy surrounding U.S. Sen. George Allen's campaign trail remarks in August has helped turn his re-election race into a close contest …
Discussion: Swing State Project
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The Roanoke Times:   Nancy Reagan says it's not OK for Webb to use president in ad
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).
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Ali Saber / Telegraph:
Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib  —  The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad is at the centre of fresh abuse allegations just a week after it was handed over to Iraqi authorities, with claims that inmates are being tortured by their new captors.
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 …
Martin Amis / Observer:
The age of horrorism (part one)  —  On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, one of Britain's most celebrated and original writers analyses - and abhors - the rise of extreme Islamism.  In a penetrating and wide-ranging essay he offers a trenchant critique of the grotesque creed and questions …
Discussion: India Uncut and normblog
Jo Mannies / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Clinton questions GOP's sincerity on security issues  —  Former President Bill Clinton asserted here Saturday that if Republicans were serious about national security, they'd carry out the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission instead of regularly using the issue to pound political opponents.
Michelle Malkin / New York Post:
FIVE YEARS AFTER 9/11: TINFOIL HATS ATTACK  —  September 10, 2006 — DEBUNKING 9/11 MYTHS: WHY CONSPIRACY THEORIES CAN'T STAND UP TO THE FACTS BY THE EDITORS OF POPULAR MECHANICS, FOREWORD BY SEN. JOHN MCCAIN HEARST, 192 PAGES, $14.95  —  I GET several e-mails from 9/11 conspiracy theorists every week …
 
 
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ABC Blames Bush, 'Ignorant' Americans for 'Islamophobia'
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"COMMITMENT-PHOBIC": I want to express some skepticism about this term …
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Medusa and the Kabul Cell
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Why, oh why can't we have a better left-wing blogging corps?
Andrea Elliott / New York Times:
More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip
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David Selbourne / Times of London:
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Schwarzenegger Says He Is Sorry
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Indications add up to government conspiracy
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