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4:35 AM ET, September 12, 2006

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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.
Spencer Ackerman / The New Republic:
NEW YORK ON 9/11:  —  Greetings from New York City.  This morning, I had to drive into Manhattan, and I stalled in traffic that stretched all the way back to the Prospect Expressway thanks to Bush's visit to Ground Zero.  Hopefully unrelated to the fact that I was stuck in a car …
Discussion: Political Animal and The Corner
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
BUSH AND 9/11....James Joyner, noting the harsh tone evident …
Discussion: Eschaton and Hullabaloo
instapunk.com:
Luxury  —  RESPONSIBILITY.  So it's been exactly five years since …
Discussion: alicublog
David Sirota / Sirotablog:
Even on 9/11, neocon chickenhawks can't refrain from straw men attacks
Discussion: New York Post and The News Blog
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...
Discussion: MyDD and The Political Pit Bull
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:
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
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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.
Discussion: The Heretik
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture
Discussion: All Spin Zone and The Heretik
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 …
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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Elaine Ganley / Associated Press:
World remembers 9/11 but many not crying
Discussion: Hot Air
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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Jennifer Nix / Firedoglake:
9/11 Families (Still) Deserve Justice
Discussion: ABCNEWS
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Reaction and Boing Boing
New York Times:
9/11/06  —  The feelings of sadness and loss with which we look back on Sept. 11, 2001, have shifted focus over the last five years.  The attacks themselves have begun to acquire the aura of inevitability that comes with being part of history.  We can argue about what one president …
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Cheney reasserts Iraq/al-Qaeda links  —  US Vice-President Dick Cheney repeated assertions on Sunday on links between the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda despite a recent Senate intelligence committee report that concluded otherwise.  —  In defending the decision …
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.
 
 
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9/11 AND THE LAW, FIVE YEARS LATER: Today marks five years since …
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David Carr / New York Times:
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Popular Mechanics editors debate "Loose Change" …
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