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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
The Left Remembers 9/11 — Earlier, I collected a series of 9/11 anniversary reflections from the press and the blogosphere. Many of them were moving but none were particularly novel. By that, I mean that everyone pretty much agreed that the day was horrible, changed a lot of things about the world …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: 9/11, as it happened Update: Amateur video added — I culled about 27 minutes of footage from the first six and a half hours of CNN's coverage that day. I'll post them here in three parts. The actual attacks themselves end about halfway through part two, but watch them all.
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
BUSH AND 9/11....James Joyner, noting the harsh tone evident in many of the lefty blogosphere's 9/11 posts today, says that "the stridency of these posts, even from bloggers and publications on the moderate side of the lefty blogosphere is surprising." — Speaking only for myself, I'm not sure this should come as a surprise to anyone.
Kristen Armstrong / sungazette.net:Arlingtonians Remember 9/11 in Their Own Ways
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David Sirota / Sirotablog:Even on 9/11, neocon chickenhawks can't refrain from straw men attacks
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Ralph Peters / New York Post:9/11: FIVE YEARS ON — GETTING IT RIGHT — THE biggest …
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Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you — Keith Olbermann blasts President Bush in his latest "Special Comment" section on Countdown tonight. He leaves no stone unturned...
White House:
President's Address to the Nation — THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Five years ago, this date — September the 11th — was seared into America's memory. Nineteen men attacked us with a barbarity unequaled in our history. They murdered people of all colors, creeds, and nationalities — and made war upon the entire free world.
Boston Globe:
How safe a world? — THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Sept. 11 attacks is a day of remembrance and special sadness for the nation, and all those who knew any of the 2,973 victims. Yet in the long run, the reaction of the Bush administration may prove more harmful to the national interest than even these horrific attacks.
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Reported Captured — The commander of Hezb-i-Islami and al-Qaeda ally detained during a raid in eastern Afghanistan — On the day of the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attack, Coalition forces score a high value target in Afghanistan. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar …
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Al-Zawahri: Gulf, Israel next targets — CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden's deputy warned that Persian Gulf countries and Israel would be al-Qaida's next targets, according to a new videotape aired by Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera on Monday, the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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CNN:
Poll: More Americans blame Bush for 9/11 — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The percentage of Americans who blame the Bush administration for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington has risen from almost a third to almost half over the past four years, a CNN poll released Monday found.
Little Green Footballs:
9/11 Conspiracists Defile WTC Site — LGF reader Zach was at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan today, and he reports that the Truthers were out in force. … Indeed.
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Brash GOP challenger presses Chafee in R.I. — Laffey stays close to Bush's stances — CRANSTON, R.I. — The Laffey campaign's secret weapon wears sneakers with tiny wheels on the bottom. — She's Stephen Laffey's 9-year-old daughter, and at Cranston's annual Greek Festival on Saturday …
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Brit / MSNBC:
STUFF HAPPENS by David Hare — 'America changed.' That's what we're told. 'On September 11th everything changed.' 'If you're not American, you can't understand.' — The infantile psycho babble of popular culture is grafted opportunistically onto America's politics.
Observer:
Wikipedia defies China's censors — The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries. — Jimmy Wales, one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine …
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance — Plans Fund Defense In Anti-Terror Cases — CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for a government-reimbursed, private insurance plan that would pay their civil judgments and legal expenses if they are sued or charged …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
John Yoo summarizes the last 5 years in two short sentences — Bob Egelko has an interesting article in The San Francisco Chronicle today examining how U.S. law has changed over the last five years as a result of the 9/11 attack. He includes this truly revealing quote from John Yoo:
Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
The ABC 9/11 Docudrama's Right-Wing Roots — On Friday, September 8, just forty-eight hours before ABC planned to air its so-called "docudrama," The Path to 9/11, Robert Iger, CEO of ABC's corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, was presented with incontrovertible evidence outlining …
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David Carr / New York Times:
A Comeback Overshadowed by a Blog — THERE was a stretch there — well, O.K., about a decade — when The New Republic fell out of the conversation. Long a Beltway touchstone, the thin little weekly with a soft spot for policy and fresh-faced Harvard grads seemed to lose momentum and then became …
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Josh Meyer / Los Angeles Times:
Hidden Depths to U.S. Monitoring — The scope of domestic surveillance has steadily expanded since 9/11. But lawmakers and privacy experts complain of too little information on it. — WASHINGTON — As Americans consider whether they are more safe or less five years after the Sept. 11 attacks …
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