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2:25 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.
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 …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Does ABC/Disney Movie Include Bush Allowing Osama Bin Laden …
Matthew Yglesias:
Dreaming of the Caliphate  —  The President actually sort …
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
John / AMERICAblog:
Disney/ABC adds mock assassination of Bill Clinton to 9/11 flick
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Agonist
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Video: Red State obtains preview copy of "Path to 9/11″
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:   READER DEANNA HEAVEN emails that she just watched The Path to 9/11 in New Zealand:
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
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 …
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.
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
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.
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).
RADAR:
CINDY SHEEHAN: CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MOM  —  The right-wingers who think nothing but the worst of Cindy Sheehan probably won't change their minds after reading Peace Mom.  In the book, which hits bookstores September 19, the antiwar icon admits she has fantasized about going back in time and killing …
Discussion: Mere Rhetoric and Decision '08
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
ABC Blames Bush, 'Ignorant' Americans for 'Islamophobia'  —  America, you ignorant Islamophobes!  Alright, maybe it's not all your fault.  Your anti-Muslim attitudes have been "stoked" by "inflammatory rhetoric" from . . . President Bush.  That was the basic message of a segment narrated …
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Time to send message to Iran  —  Former Iranian President Khatami, welcome to Boston.  —  On the occasion of your speech at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and considering your advocacy for an Islamic bomb, terrorism and the destruction of Israel, let us consider our nation's policy toward Iran.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Bobby Chesney / PrawfsBlawg:
Cancelling classes to conference?  —  Here's a question for the students out there: does it bother you when a professor cancels a class in order to attend a conference or workshop?  —  On one hand, this sort of thing usually imposes a cost of sorts on you, either in the form of a make-up class …
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Will Baude / Crescat Sententia:   TEACHING LAW AND THE SACRED TRUST
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: Right Truth and TalkLeft
 
 
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
"COMMITMENT-PHOBIC": I want to express some skepticism about this term …
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The Roanoke Times:
Nancy Reagan says it's not OK for Webb to use president in ad
Kenneth R. Timmerman / NewsMax.com:
Torture Victims Blast Khatami Visit
New York Times:
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Why, oh why can't we have a better left-wing blogging corps?
Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
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Can the West defeat the Islamist threat? Here are ten reasons why not
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Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
War crimes  —  Just in case anyone doubts that James …
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The Walt Disney Company Standards of Business Conduct Illustrated
Discussion: Firedoglake
New York Times:
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Discussion: The Heretik
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