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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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:

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 …

A Comeback Overshadowed by a Blog  —  THERE was a stretch there — well, O.K., about a decade — when The New Republic fell out of the conversation.  Long a Beltway touchstone, the thin little weekly with a soft spot for policy and fresh-faced Harvard grads seemed to lose momentum and then became …

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 …

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.