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12:05 PM ET, September 25, 2006

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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Chris Wallace, Caught Off Balance?  —  Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said that he was stunned when Bill Clinton accused him of a "conservative hit job" after he challenged the former president on his record in fighting terrorism.  —  "I thought it was a fair, balanced and not especially …
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Salon:
Who wanted to "cut and run" from Somalia?  —  One of the central prongs in the right-wing effort to blame Bill Clinton for the growth of al-Qaida (and one of the central aspects of the general neoconservative mythology of how to fight terrorism) revolves around Somalia.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Who wanted to "cut and run" from Somalia?  —  My post this morning on Salon concerns the accusation voiced this weekend by Chris Wallace in his Fox News interview with President Clinton (a favorite accusation of neoconservatives) that Clinton "emboldened" Al Qaeda when he withdrew American troops …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Redstate
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Iraq Report Rattles Races  —  Twist Hits Lieberman Before Speech On War  —  A conclusion by American intelligence agencies that the U.S. invasion of Iraq spawned a new generation of Islamic radicalism threw Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman a curve on the eve of a major campaign speech he intends to deliver today on the war.
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Editor and Publisher:
Battle Breaks Out in Media Over Bleak NIE Iraq Assessment  —  NEW YORK A pitched battle over an intelligence assessment, covered first by The New York Times and then The Washington Post, broke out across the media today.  Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig went so far as blame the whole fuss …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and protein wisdom
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
U.N. Force Is Treading Lightly on Lebanese Soil  —  Italian soldiers in Lebanon say that for now, they cannot even set up a checkpoint.  Instead, they alert the Lebanese Army of any suspicious cars.  —  One month after a United Nations Security Council resolution ended a 34-day war between Israel …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
UNIFIL Bigger But Just As Ineffective
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Gateway Pundit:   Thousands Rally in Lebanon Against Hezbollah!
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
McCain Names Practices Detainee Bill Would Bar  —  Senator Says 3 Interrogation Methods Are Among the 'Extreme Measures' the Plan Would Outlaw  —  A Republican senator who played a leading role in drafting new rules for U.S. interrogations of terrorism suspects said yesterday that he believes …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   McCain Can't Keep His Mouth Shut
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Congress Is Winding Down, but Much Is Left Undone  —  A Congress derided as do-nothing has a week to do something, and the prospects are cloudy.  —  Procrastination, power struggles and partisanship have left Congress with substantial work to finish before breaking for the elections.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House-Senate Disagreement Could Halt Defense Bill
Discussion: MyDD
Peter Spiegel / Los Angeles Times:
Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short  —  An extraordinary action by the chief of staff sends a message: The Pentagon must increase the budget or reduce commitments in Iraq and elsewhere.  —  WASHINGTON — The Army's top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders …
Washington Post:
Millions of Seniors Facing Medicare 'Doughnut Hole'  —  Millions of older Americans are confronting a temporary break in their Medicare drug coverage this month that will require them to pay the full cost of their prescriptions or face the painful prospect of going without.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
In Tiny Courts of New York, Abuses of Law and Power  —  Some of the courtrooms are not even courtrooms: tiny offices or basement rooms without a judge's bench or jury box.  Sometimes the public is not admitted, witnesses are not sworn to tell the truth, and there is no word-for-word record of the proceedings.
Discussion: Majikthise, TalkLeft and Brendan Nyhan
Newsweek:
The Rise of Jihadistan  —  Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda's leaders—can operate freely.  —  You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Baseball Crank:
POLITICS: How Wrong Was Josh Marshall?  —  Plenty Wrong.  —  Now that it has been revealed that the main source for Bob Novak's column "outing" Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's right-hand man at the State Department and (like Novak) no fan of the Iraq War …
John Kerry / Opinion Journal:
Losing Afghanistan  —  We're not adequately fighting the war we should be fighting.  —  As we marked the fifth anniversary of the worst attack on American soil, there was enormous discussion of the lessons of 9/11.  But after the bagpipes stopped, and news coverage turned to other issues …
Reuters:
Mel campaigns for new movie, against war in Iraq  —Text+LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mel Gibson has returned to the spotlight to promote his upcoming movie "Apocalypto," and to criticize the war in Iraq, according to the Hollywood Reporter.  —  Almost two months after he railed against Jews …
 
 
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Retired officers to criticize Rumsfeld
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
U.N. shows why it's incapable of reform
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Hartford Courant:
Getting A Line On Lamont
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
For Bush, War Anguish Expressed Privately