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8:25 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."
Taylor Marsh:
John Kerry Blasts ABC's Desperate Docudrama
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
New York Post:   9/11 MOVIE  —  FURY SPURS ABC TO ALTER OSAMA SCENE
MSNBC:   'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for December 28
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 …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Said to Find No Hussein Link to Terror Chief  —  The Central Intelligence Agency last fall repudiated the claim that there were prewar ties between Saddam Hussein's government and an operative of Al Qaeda, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to a report issued Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Iraq's Alleged Al-Qaeda Ties Were Disputed Before War
Discussion: Legal Fiction and Rising Hegemon
Andrew Gumbel / Independent:   Saddam had no link with al-Qa'ida, US Senate concludes
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Senate finds no al-Qaida-Saddam link
Discussion: True Blue Liberal and Say Anything
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
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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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 …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
F.B.I. Agents Question Accuracy of 9/11 Series  —  Two retired F.B.I. agents said today that they had rejected advisory roles on the disputed ABC mini-series, "The Path to 9/11," because of concerns about the program's accuracy.  —  One of the agents, Thomas E. Nicoletti …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
biz.yahoo.com:
Yusuf Islam Joins Atlantic Records; Former Cat Stevens Signs Pact for North America via Ya Records; First Pop Album in 28 Years Due in November  —  Atlantic Records has announced the signing of Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, via a pact for North America with the artist's Ya Records label.
 
 
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