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5:25 AM ET, September 9, 2006

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Max Blumenthal / huffingtonpost.com:
Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception  —  Less than 72 hours before ABC's "The Path to 9/11" is scheduled to air, the network is suddenly under siege.  On Tuesday, ABC was forced to concede that "The Path to 9/11" is "a dramatization, not a documentary."
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
ABC Gets More Pressure to Toss 9/11 Film  —  NEW YORK (AP) — ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.  Former Clinton administration officials, historians and a Democratic petition with nearly 200,000 signatures urged the network to scrap the five-hour drama.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Meltdown: Dean, Berger, Albright, lefty historians demand "Path" be edited cancelled  —  Nothing else will do at this point, it seems: … The message sent out this afternoon by DNC Executive Director Tom McMahon also ended with a call for ABC "to keep this cheap right-wing miniseries off our airwaves."
Greg Sargent / electioncentral.tpmcafe.com:
In Letter, Albright And Berger Demand Kean Get ABC To Kill Film  —  We've just obtained a letter that Madeleine Albright and Samuel Berger have just sent to 9/11 Commission chair Tom Kean, demanding that Kean use his pull with ABC to get the network to kill "The Path to 9/11."
Editor and Publisher:
'NYT' Calls Controversial 9/11 Movie Evenhanded, Others Disagree  —  NEW YORK The film-makers and network responsible for the upcoming miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," which is now under assault for its alleged conservative bias, received critical support from a perhaps unexpected quarter on Friday — The New York Times.
CNN:
Clinton blasts 9/11 film, amid report of changes … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton called for ABC to "tell the truth" in an upcoming miniseries about the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks.  —  Senior officials and advisers in Clinton's administration have attacked the accuracy of …
New York Post:   9/11 MOVIE  —  FURY SPURS ABC TO ALTER OSAMA SCENE
Stephanie Heinatz / Hampton Roads Daily Press:
Eustis chief: Iraq post-war plan muzzled  —  FORT EUSTIS — Months before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists from developing plans for securing a post-war Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
"HE WOULD FIRE THE NEXT PERSON THAT SAID THAT"....Today, via Orin Kerr, comes a remarkable interview with Brigadier General Mark Scheid, chief of the Logistics War Plans Division after 9/11, and one of the people with primary responsibility for war planning.  Shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan …
Discussion: The Reaction
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
DONALD RUMSFELD AND PLANNING FOR THE IRAQ WAR: Today's issue …
Discussion: The RBC
David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Panel Releases Report on Iraq Intelligence  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee said today that there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein had prewar ties to Al Qaeda and one of the terror organization's most notorious members, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.  —  The report, sure to intensify …
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Rules of Evidence  —  A new Senate report on Iraq and al Qaeda ignores everything which gets in the way of its conclusions.  —  ONCE AGAIN headlines from media outlets around the country declare "No Saddam, al-Qaeda link."  This time the news cycle is being fed by the release of two reports …
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Senate finds no al-Qaida-Saddam link
Discussion: True Blue Liberal and Say Anything
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Television Ad Shows Reagan Praising Webb In 1985 Speech  —  Democratic Senate candidate James Webb will launch his first television ad Monday, a 30-second tribute by former President Ronald Reagan, for whom Webb once served as Navy secretary.  —  The commercial shows Reagan, a Republican …
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Los Angeles Times:
Governor Apologizes for Remarks About Latina Lawmaker  —  Schwarzenegger's banter with aides offers glimpse of bull session behind closed doors.  —  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today apologized for saying the lone Latina Republican lawmaker in California had a "very hot," …
Discussion: LA Observed
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Time to Take Away Disney's Political Candy  —  I looked through the FEC filings this morning, and found some interesting and expected information about Disney's chief, Robert Iger.  Though he gives generously to both parties, Robert Iger isn't a wingnut.  He's a neoliberal businessman …
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Donna Abu-Nasr / Associated Press:
Saudi religious cops ban dog, cat sales  —  JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's religious police, normally tasked with chiding women to cover themselves and ensuring men attend mosque prayers, are turning to a new target: cats and dogs.  —  The police have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets …
Discussion: Tammy Bruce
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Body Count in Baghdad Nearly Triples  —  Morgue's Revised Toll for August Undermines Claims by Leaders of Steep Drop in Violence  —  Baghdad's morgue almost tripled its count for violent deaths in Iraq's capital during August from 550 to 1,536, authorities said Thursday …
Michael / Le Blog Bérubé:
ABF Friday: Blame America First edition!  —  While everyone else in the liberal blogosphere is focused on the world-historical shenanigans of ABC-Disney-Rove's fictionalized docudrama, The Path to 9/11: Clinton Did It (original title: A Million Little Pieces of the Democrats' Plan to Undermine America) …
USA Today:
Technology empowers amateur journalism — for better or worse  —  Between broadband Internet access, inexpensive camcorders, simple audio and video editing tools — not to mention YouTube — the power of "citizen journalists" has increased tremendously in the past couple of years.
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
A Kept Promise  —  In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said: … Today, in Paul Krugman's NY Times column, I learn: … Because this is the group with the highest average tax rate, I guess we should conclude that President Bush kept his promise.  —  Of course, that wasn't Paul's point.
 
 
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Wallace slams ABC on 9/11 project: "I think it's slanderous …
Tad Walch / Desert News:
BYU places '9/11 truth' professor on paid leave