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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 — 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.
Ralph Peters / New York Post:
9/11: FIVE YEARS ON — GETTING IT RIGHT — THE biggest story since 9/11 is that there hasn't been an other 9/11. According to our hysterical media culture, everything's always going wrong. The truth is that we've gotten the big things right. — On this fifth anniversary …
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Five Years On — I remember where I was, as I'm sure you do. I remember the feeling of knowing our country was under attack the instant the second plane hit. The feeling grew and hardened when we heard by phone from someone in Washington, before any media reported it …
Will / Attytood:
The Emperor's New Clothes: How 2nd graders saw what the American media wouldn't report — George W. Bush is a man on a mission today: To remind the American people how they felt five years ago, when the public was understandably frightened by the killing of nearly 3,000 fellow citizens …
Kristen Armstrong / sungazette.net:Arlingtonians Remember 9/11 in Their Own Ways
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Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:Solidarity — Our first duty is to stand together against bin Ladenism.
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Lt Col P / Op For:September 11th... 1565 — The fifth anniversary of September 11th 2001 is upon us.
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush tours Sept. 11 sites on anniversary — NEW YORK - President Bush is abandoning the quiet approach he has adopted in recent years to mark the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. — On this, the tragedy's fifth anniversary, he's taking a grim but high-profile journey to weep with relatives …
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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Cheney defends hard-line role — WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday defended his lightning-rod role as a leading advocate for invading Iraq, for a warrantless surveillance program, and for harsh treatment of suspected terrorists. — ``Part of my job is to think about the unthinkable …
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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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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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.
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.
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 …
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Situation Called Dire in West Iraq — Anbar Is Lost Politically, Marine Analyst Says — The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim …
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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 …
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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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Popular Mechanics editors debate "Loose Change" morons on 9/11 Update: Video added — The brawl to settle it all. — Bonus audio: Bottom-feeding LC director Dylan Avery laughs at the hijackers' boxcutters and accuses the father of a passenger on Flight 77 of being in on the conspiracy.
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