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RedState: ABC's "Path to 9/11":
The Video Democrats DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE (H/T)
The Democrats threatened ABC/Disney over "The Path to 9/11" - but what's so extraordinary that legislators in the federal government would use their power so...cravenly? Apparently, the truth hurts. (UPDATE: and now Clinton's lawyers have weighed in)
RedState (thanks to the folks at Traditional Values Coalition) is proud to present, the video in dispute. It's broken up into six segments.
*** 21:08 Controversial Path To 9/11 Clips Available On Line
Dan Riehl
Update: I've watched half the clips, taking a break. My first reaction is that the Democrats behavior in trying to keep this off the air amounts to a criminal conspiracy to keep the American people as ignorant as possible when it comes to the threat we face from Islamo-fascism. ...
9/11 Today
I was down at the World Trade Center site recently after completing some business in the city. It's hard to take decent pictures that actually capture what it's like on a cell phone. The scale of everything is simply too vast. ... You can move on from that and back to the unfortunate political reality we face today as Crittenden at the Herald weighs in on Democrat efforts to interfere in the showing of The Path To 9/11 and their continued reluctance to speak any truth. Today, they look like incredibly small minded people with pathetically tiny agendas, like cell phones unequipped to deal with serious issues and big holes we face in America today. Though ultimately their tearing into the fabric of America with their distasteful conniving and whining will hopefully pale when compared to genuinely significant events like 9/11, their doing what they are doing disgusts me just the same, filling me with a loathing I'd prefer to not have to feel.
Liberal Blogosphere Dissembles
Yes, the Lefty blogs must stop The Path To 9/11 from ever being shown. But here is what some notables had to say previously when the program in question dealt with Reagan, not as a politician, but as a human being.
Hypocrits all. You simply need to read their writing over the last few days and compare it to these posts and positions below. ...
Do Democrats Know How To Win?
Given the political news that everyone has been reading for months, one would expect to see a Democrat Party calmly going about its business focused and collected, all but ensuring the big win so many have been projecting for so long. Unfortunately for them, that isn't the Democrat Party we're seeing.
One of the ways you win is to look and behave like a winner. ...
Lieberman Points Out a Turnabout by Lamont
NEW HAVEN, Sept. 8 — Ned Lamont, who this week chastised Senator Joseph I. Lieberman for his public rebuke of President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, wrote to Mr. Lieberman at the time praising the eloquence of his speech on the Senate floor.
9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply
Many Americans suspect U.S. government involvement or complicity
Michael Powell [al-WaPo]
More and more villages are missing their idiots.
ABC Stands By Its 9/11 Story — Almost
After minor edits in response to Democratic critics, the miniseries will air as scheduled. It's already set off a bitter election-year dispute.
Walt Disney Co.'s ABC is forging ahead with plans to air a miniseries starting Sunday despite controversy over its efforts to dramatize — and some say unfairly politicize — the events leading up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ...
Video: Clint Taylor talks Hezbollah-in-Venezuela on “Fox & Friends”
Allahpundit
“Vent” goes national.
Video: America-hating nutjob Fred Phelps condemns Stewart, Colbert
Allahpundit
“Oh yes, ol’ Sodom and Gomorrah had their blaspheming comics.”
Phase II Report:
Saddam Retained Banned Missiles, Biological Stocks
Ed Morrissey
Thanks to the genius of CQ reader Harrison Colter, I now have searchable PDFs of the Phase II reports. The new copies have already paid dividends. In the overall report on pre-war intel accuracy, two of the conclusions of the report seem to have gotten lost in the mainstream media coverage. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has concluded that Saddam Hussein maintained his stocks of biological material intended to create weapons as well as missiles banned by the cease-fire in 1991. In fact, as the report states, Saddam never accepted the missile-range restrictions and intentionally developed missiles to violate them. ...
Searchable Phase II Reports
Ed Morrissey
Earlier, I noted that CQ reader Harrison Colter provided me with searchable versions of the Phase II documents released by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday. I'm now hosting these documents for others to use as reference: ...
Town strengthens illegal immigration law
HAZLETON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Officials in the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton on Friday strengthened a local law designed to drive illegal immigrants away in a bid to defend the measure against legal challenges.
Hazleton City Council passed a new version of the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, an ordinance first passed in July that was already one of the toughest anti-illegal immigrant laws in the country. It has since been copied by other cities where illegal immigration is blamed for rising crime and overburdened social services. ...
French Military Turns Pacifist On Shores Of Lebanon
When Israel agreed to lift the air and sea blockade of Lebanon two days ago, the UN promised that the forces replacing them would interdict arms intended to resupply their enemy, Hezbollah. France, which will provide substantial forces in controlling sea access to Lebanon, now says its military will not use force to stop anything: ...
Senate Intelligence Report Finds No Connection
(2006-09-09) -- Just a day after the Senate Intelligence committee released a report finding no pre-war connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, aides said unpublished findings of the committee's probe also indicate no verfiable link between the senate and intelligence. ...
Meltdown: Dean, Berger, Albright,
lefty historians demand “Path” be edited cancelled
Nothing else will do at this point, it seems: Former national security adviser Samuel R. Berger and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose depictions are at the center of the controversy, asked Thomas Kean, the Republican ex-governor of New Jersey who led the commission looking into the attacks, to use his influence with filmmakers to pull it.
If This Comes To Pass
We are moving from simple protest to very dangerous ground now. As Allah points out, the Democrat Party has gone from demanding simple revisions, to insisting The Path To 9/11 not be shown at all. How dare they do that? HOW DARE THEY DO THAT?
With that demand, we are entering a place I could never have dreamed America might one day go. When a powerful political party can openly threaten our media, causing them to significantly alter, or God forbid withhold content that media alone is responsible for putting on, we are welcoming the pure stench of fascism into America, a stench we have consistently opposed, fought and defeated with blood and treasure, both at home and abroad. ...
Video: Matthews suggests Armitage was set up by the White House
Matt Sheffield nailed him this morning for maintaining conspicuous radio silence on Plamegate since the scandal went bust. Drudge picked it up soon after, thereby virtually forcing Matthews to mention it tonight.
And mention it he did. You wanted him to talk about Armitage, Sheff? You got it. ...
The Phase II Reports
Ed Morrissey
I spent my lunch break in a teleconference regarding the release of two reports from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence -- the so-called Phase II reports. These came from further investigations by the SSCI into the differences between pre-war intel and post-war findings, and specifically focused on two areas of inquiry. The first covered the general accuracy of pre-war intel on WMD and Iraqi connections to al-Qaeda. The second report analyzes the information given to American intelligence by the Iraqi National Congress, headed at the time by Ahmed Chalabi, who currently serves in Iraq's National Assembly. ...
Phase II 'Accuracy' Report Proves Joe Wilson A Liar
Ed Morrissey
The Senate Select Commitee on Intelligence Phase II reports may take some time to process, reading the source data rather than just relying on the conclusions, but I've found one interesting nugget already. In the WMD accuracy report, a significant passage demonstrates the falsity of one leftist talking point (page 16, emphases mine):
Boomer emails: 
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- 43% of all Americans think that illegal immigration is a serious problem.
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Does sorta seen that way, don't it?
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