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Kristen Armstrong / sungazette.net:
Arlingtonians Remember 9/11 in Their Own Ways — The fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was commemorated Monday in a ceremony that not only honored those who died, but saluted those whose actions on 9/11 made a difference. — "Arlington remembers all responders," …
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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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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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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.
Spencer Ackerman / The New Republic:
NEW YORK ON 9/11: — Greetings from New York City.
NEW YORK ON 9/11: — Greetings from New York City.
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David Sirota / Sirotablog:
Even on 9/11, neocon chickenhawks can't refrain from straw men attacks
Even on 9/11, neocon chickenhawks can't refrain from straw men attacks
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Luxury — RESPONSIBILITY. So it's been exactly five years since …
Luxury — RESPONSIBILITY. So it's been exactly five years since …
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Ralph Peters / New York Post:
9/11: FIVE YEARS ON — GETTING IT RIGHT — THE biggest …
9/11: FIVE YEARS ON — GETTING IT RIGHT — THE biggest …
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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:
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
9/11: FIVE YEARS LATER BUSH CONTINUES TO WIELD POWER — The story of U.S. law since Sept. 11, 2001, is a story about power — who wields it, who contests it and who has the last word. — There are subplots — debates about secrecy, the treatment of noncitizens and the shifting balance between liberty and security.
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
9/11 AND THE LAW, FIVE YEARS LATER: Today marks five years since …
9/11 AND THE LAW, FIVE YEARS LATER: Today marks five years since …
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.
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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John Mueller / Cato Unbound:
SOME REFLECTIONS ON WHAT, IF ANYTHING, "ARE WE SAFER?" MIGHT MEAN — With the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a central question repeatedly asked is whether that country has become safer from international terrorism or not. I have never quite understood precisely what this question means, but let me explore six possibilities.
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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.
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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