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Hot Headlines, September 2006

Sept. 16
GOP in Total Disarray
Your daily voting horror story: welcome to Colorado...
In a replay of Iraq, a battle is brewing over intelligence on Iran
"This is by far the p!ssiest press conference Bush has given. He’s furious"
Conservative Source Claims Armitage, Rove Worked Together to Blow Plame’s Cover
ABC CROCK-U-DRAMA WATCH --
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- More Legal Trouble For Rove: Attorney Says He Targeted Client. | Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) Pleads Guilty | Ney Faces Possible 2 Years Plus in Prison | Ney Already in Detox, Lawyers Say | Ney Got Off Easy, Former Prosecutor Says | Bush’s IRS takes down leading religious right anti-abortion group right before the election. Coincidence? John at Americablog does not think so. | NJ Senate Candidate Keane Got Thousands In Donations Same Day He Voted For Company’s Tax Exemption | Did then-Sen. Mel Martinez benefit from Ney’s repping Jack? | Yes! Ney Admits to Lobbying Florida Senator Martinez! | MT-Sen: Burns falsely takes credit for amendment | That’s Entertainment! Tennessee Mayor Allowed Thong Girl 3 To Be Filmed In City Hall | MT-Sen: Burns Up Next in Abramoff Scandal? | Time: Is Burns next target after Ney? | DKos Exclusive: Colorado GOP 527 Cooking the Books or Sloppy Chefs? | Ex-NJ Senate Head, Democratic kingmaker John Lynch, Pleads Guilty to Fraud | Dollar Bill Jefferson (S-LA2) tried to take over firm | Officials Want Former Governor George Ryan in Prison | Ney Deal Raises Pressure on Capitol Hill
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Greenwald Breaks Down The Proposed FISA Bills w/ Sam Seder | Senate Dems Call for Probe of WH Coercion | Exxon-erated! HomeSec Drops Palast Charges
HOT POLITICS -- Angry Republicans: "We’ve Strayed A Long Way From The Principles" | CO-Gov: Ritter (D) takes HUGE lead | MI-Gov: Granholm hits 50 percent | VoteVets ad gets wide play | CT-Sen: Drawing blood | Bush Attempts (and Fails) To Counter McCain Revolt At Press Conference | Senate Report: bleak picture for GOP | Bush Bets Big on Terror: Will Fortune Favor the Bold? | Racist profiling: Stephen Colbert Harshes Sen. George Felix Macaca Allen For Ethnic Rally | Poll Shows GOP Not Making Its Case | Rove Brings Hate Speech Tour Out West | Republican Party: Idiotic, Moronic, Or Just Stupid? | NY GOP AG Candidate Jeanine Pirro Upset That Her Crooked Hubby Remains Target of Press Scrutiny | Former Prosecutor Richard Chema Wins OH-3 Dem. Primary, Will Face Turner in General Election | Former Prosecutor Richard Chema Wins OH-3 Dem. Primary, Will Face Turner in General Election
QWAGMIRE -- Death Toll In Darfur Hundreds Of Thousands Higher Than Estimated | Redo! US opens fresh Afghan offensive
WAR CRIMES -- Bush says Powell is "unacceptable" for comparing the United States to Al Qaeda | Sen. Lindsey Graham: Bush’s Detainee Legislation "Could Come Back To Haunt Us" | McCain says Bush proposals put "our military personnel and others directly at risk in this and future wars" | DKos: Bait and Switch on Torture? McJoan smells a rat | Bush Fights GOP Revolt Over Bill Allowing Torture of Terrorist Suspects
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Watch the video: Long-sought September 11 store surveillance tape didn’t really capture Pentagon
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Study: 330% More Press Laughter Under Snow Than McClellan | Republican Senator George Felix Macaca Allen Jr. to attend event with shunned GOP media extremist | It’s Official: Nancy Grace IS A Monster. But Under What Circumstances Does That Matter? | The media understands that the Bush-Rove plan to use the torture issue against Democrats has backfired | ABC, CBS ignored top Marine intelligence officer’s assessment that major Iraq province is lost | Left builds power base in the blogosphere
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Ford Slashing 10,000 More Salaried Jobs
ELECTION THEFTS -- Sensing fraud, Dems urge absentee vote | More Diebold problems in Maryland
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- NRA-Backed Candidate Lacks a Hunting License
OH, GOD! -- Does George Bush agree with Pope Ratzinger that the Prophet Muhammad was "evil and inhuman"?
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Senate Republicans kill proposed $2bn for 9/11 first responders
TRASHING NATURE -- More polar bears drowning due to global warming

Sept. 15
Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney to plead guilty to at least one criminal charge
Watch this! George W. Bush Tells Fred "The Weasel" Barnes That Capturing Osama, The Man Who Engineered the Killing of 3,000 People on Sept. 11, 2001 Is "Not A Top Priority Use of American Resources"
In Congress, White House's Push for Terror Powers Meets Chaos
Catfight! Bob Novak Slams Dick Armitage, His Source On CIA Agent
ABC CROCK-U-DRAMA WATCH -- Conservatives continue to claim that Disney/ABC mockumentary was "based on the 9/11 Commission Report"
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- NY Gov. Pataki seeks to hobble Spitzer with GOP-aligned appointees in wave of corrupt "midnight appointments" | Shadowy 527 Behind Push-poll Calls Hitting Democrats in Several States | New GOP Attack Group Used Ad Firm with Party Ties | Dubai Ruler Allegedly Ran Small Boy Slave Trade | Dr. Frist Sneaks Gambling Provision Into Military Bill | Smear Boat Redux: Wealthy GOP Donor Drops $5 Mil for New Group of Liars
TRAITORGATE -- Traitorgate reporting: U.S. Press Bigwigs Screw Up, Again | Armitage Into the Trick Box | Bob Novak, Dick Armitage fighting over who said what about Plame
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Did Pentagon Counsel Twist Arms to Aid White House Torture Bill? | Sen. Reid: The Specter bill will NOT be enacted. Period. | Did White House Coerce Military Lawyers? | Sen. Graham: White House Held Military Lawyers In 5 Hour Meeting and Tried To Force Them To Sign A Prepared Statement | Libertarians, Conservatives and Warrantless Eavesdropping | Air Force secretary proposes testing high-power microwave devices "on American citizens in crowd-control situations"
HOT POLITICS -- What is behind the increasing extremism of Bush followers? | FL Democratic Gov Candidate Jim Davis Names Daryl Jones Running Mate | Senator Graham Calls for Hearing on Arm-Twisting of Jags over Torture Bill | Brent Budowsky Challenges Colin Powell To Endorse Democrats | Republicans Are Hyping Fear to Keep One-Party Rule | Rep. Shays Gets Cozy With Bush's Mom | Sen. Mary Landrieu Fires Away: "America is tired of the wrongheaded and boneheaded leadership of the Republican party" | Former Opponent Urges Sen. Obama To Run For President | Lamont Taps His Own Funds for Conn. Race | TN-Sen: SUSA gives Ford his first lead | Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards Dies | MO-Sen: How to win gratitude for about $4K | VA-Sen: Another Allen apology and polls | Senate Candidate Ford To Opponent Corker: "Stop Hiding Behind The Money"
QWAGMIRE -- Suicide truck bomb hits US Army Baghdad outpost Thursday, killing 2 American soldiers and leaving 25 wounded | Sectarian killings increasing in areas of Iraq where troops are unavailable | Are Christo-fascists any better than Islamo-fascists? | Atrios: Black comedy at Senate site | Defeatist Tony Snow telegraphs failure in Iraq | Military Admits Quite Intelligently Not Taking Opportunity To Bomb Taliban Insurgents | GOP Senator George Allen voted against giving our troops the body armor they needed
WAR CRIMES -- Sen. Warner: Senators "Need to Explore" Whether Bush Team Tried to Coerce JAGs on Torture Policy | Senate Panel Bucks White House, Backs Anti-Torture Measure | 29 retired military and Defense Dept officials urge the Senate Armed Services Committee to reject the White House's attempt to relax CIA interrogation standards | Powell joins McCain, Warner and Lindsey, says Bush torture plan would put our troops in imminent danger
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush's Goal: Gut Geneva Conventions, Endanger US Troops | Gee, George, is Osama the new Hitler -- or not a priority? | Remember the Days When Bush Used to Oppose Letting Bin Laden Set National Security Priorities? | Bush Asks GOP to Back Terror Bills | Michael Chertoff: If we inspect cargo for nukes, the terrorists win | Powell Dares Say It: "The World Is Beginning To Doubt The Moral Basis Of Our Fight Against Terrorism" | Sens. Challenge White House Terror Bill | Tony Snow Whitewashes Bush's False Statements About Hussein/Zarqawi Link | Remember the anthrax letters?
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- CIA Learned in 2002 That Bin Laden Had No Iraq Ties | Reid calls out Bush for refusing to declassify key sections of last week's Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq intelligence
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- As violence in Darfur mounts, and the African Union mission is set to expire, will the U.N. send in the blue helmets? | N. Korea warns South against sanctions | Doing it right: First lady Laura Bush is teaming with former President Clinton on global aid | Movie Hunk Schools John Bolton on Giplomacy: George Clooney Addresses The U.N. On Darfur | Kazakhs deny satirical character "Borat" is part of summit talks | UN Inspectors Call Congressional Report On Iran "Outrageous And Dishonest"
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Lawyer says FCC ordered study on media conglomeration destroyed | CBS unilaterally declares GOP "Gains Ground in Battle for Congress" based on rhetoric, not poll numbers | On Today debut, Vieira wondered whether Democrats have plan for "victory in Iraq without withdrawing," ignoring Marine intelligence report saying "no chance" for victory in parts of Iraq | NY Times' Phillips's revisionist history: "Swift-boating" is "a verb for negative ads" | Oops! Someone's In Trouble in Seacaucus
ELECTION THEFTS -- Anger and outrage lit up Congress Thursday, as Republicans defended their voter I.D. bill against charges it will suppress minority turnout | Sarasota Florida Court Finds For Voters, Amendment Calling for Paper Ballots to go Before Voters | Watch this! Lou Dobbs Takes A Look At Maryland's E-Voting Problems
JUSTICE WATCH -- TX Gov. Candidate Kinky Friedman: Pot Legalization Long Overdue
OH, GOD! -- Sound Familiar? Once Again, Just In Time for Election Season, Conservatives Say Religion Under Attack
TRASHING NATURE -- Send Christie Whitman to jail! | Record wildfire season may be linked to global warming

Sept. 14
ABC CROCK-U-DRAMA WATCH -- WaPo columnist slams 9/11 crock-u-drama -- and finds MORE fabrications, falsities and flubs
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Brace Yourself for Swift Boat Season | Pork Database Bill Passes House | Senator Reid calls on White House to stop cover-up of Cheney's Iraq lies | Is an Oil Conspiracy Behind Plunge in Pre-Election Pump Prices? | Bush fundraiser Noe's laughable excuse: he felt pressured | GA Gov Offers Sweet Tax break How-To on Talk Radio | School Accepts $55K Settlement For Having To Pay For Sen. Rick Santorum's Kids' Homeschool | No Indictment for "Dollar" Bill Jefferson (D-LA2) before Election | Tom DeLay Could Face Conspiracy Charge
TRAITORGATE -- David Corn: Novak vs. Armitage: Was the Plame Leak Deliberate? | Indict Novak Now | Plame and Wilson: White House picked fight with wrong couple | I'm sorry Karl Rove . . . | Traitorous Bob Novak Changes His Story -- a Fourth Time
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Weapons for stopping the Specter bill | Republicans to give Bush "Get out of jail free card" on warrantless surveillance | Senate Democrats must filibuster the Specter bill | Democrats have been reluctant to pay much attention to the Specter bill, which gives unprecedented unilateral power to the President | Smacking tovarich: EJ Dionne smacks Comrade Dick | Raw Story acquires NSA wiretap talking points for Senators | High-level Verizon exec. is ex-official who long-argued for more surveillance
HOT POLITICS -- November Election: Next Gulf of Tonkin? | Times butchers "rubberstamp" story on retroactively legalizing Bush warrantless surveillance | With Chafee's crucial primary win, get ready for the "WASP preppy political Olympics" | A push to protect incumbents: National parties intervene in primary races | Democrats Form New Group for Fund-Raising and Ads | Interior Official On Dept.'s Ethics: "Simply Stated, Short Of A Crime, Anything Goes" | In R.I., GOP spends heavily to ensure voter turnout | IL-06: Bean looking better than GOP wishes | MT-Sen: Montana papers call foul on Burns | Right Wing Throws Stones At Pelosi From Glass House | Watch this! Jimmy Carter smacks Lieberman, Bush boy | House Battles Over GOP's Politicized 9/11 Resolution | PA-07: New Sestak ad | MI-Sen: Bouchard and Bush, Best Friends Forever! | Controversy over George Felix Allen Jr's Racism Overshadowed by New Evidence He's a Big Fat Liar! | Still the one: Rock Star John Hall Wins Dem Primary In New York | VA-SEN: Blistering New Ad Hammers George Felix Allen Jr. Over Body Armor Vote | AZ-08: Right wingnut wins primary, improves Dem chances in open seat | Roll Call Wants You to Believe Voter Anger May Not Help Democrats on Election Day
QWAGMIRE -- Lamont: U.S. Weaker Because of Iraq War | Gays renew drive against Pentagon's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy | US quite intelligently declined Taliban funeral target | 65 tortured bodies found in Baghdad | Iraq Asks Iran For Security Help | 27 dead in another Iraqi mass execution (WARNING: Moonie Press Link)
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- 61% Of Americans Find Bush's "Hitler" Language Inappropriate | President Bush Lets Osama Define America's Foreign Policy Priorities | Report: Osama on the move
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- US calls for sanctions on Iran over nuclear program
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Why Aren't Michelle Malkin or David Horowitz Going to Prison With These Animal Rights Activists? | CBS offered response to Giuliani's "Free Speech" segment -- but still no Democrats or progressives | Helen Thomas: Bush falls back on "lame justification" for Iraq war | Did Nancy Grace drive a mother to suicide? | Judith Miller is exactly who you think she is | Brace yourself: Christopher Buckley says it is time to hand over the Congress to the Democrats | The Katie Couric Show Slips To Third Place | Air America to restructure, "set to declare bankruptcy" | Watch this! Kristen Breitweiser responds to Coulter on Larry King
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Chicago Overturns Living Wage Law
ELECTION THEFTS -- Cool tool: "Google" Your Voter Registration! | Diebold, the e-voting-machine maker, has long sworn its systems are secure. Not so, says a new Princeton study. Converting votes from one candidate to another is simple
JUSTICE WATCH -- NC Cohabitation Law Struck Down
OH, GOD! -- Ayatollah Bush Tells Conservative Journalists He Sees "Third Awakening" of Religious Devotion
RACISM IN THE USA -- Talk Show Easily Accessed Schwarzenegger's Latino Rant | Republican Bigot Eruption: Tom Tancredo Hails White Power
TRASHING NATURE -- "Anything goes" at Interior Department

Sept. 13
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) Calls Out Cheney For Continuing To Push Faulty Intelligence
Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame Will Add Dick Armitage To CIA Leak Civil Suit
Tony Snow Ignores Intel Report, Claims There Was A "Relationship" Between Saddam And Al Qaeda
ABC CROCK-U-DRAMA WATCH -- Max Blumenthal: The Swift Boat Connection to Disney's 9/11 Deception | BBC unaware of 9/11 film evangelical link | Part two of ABC's 9-11 crock-u-drama contained falsified scenes bolstering Bush | ABC mock-u-drama Tough On Bush Administration? Not By A Long Shot | Providence Journal issues correction to "incorrect" Path to 9/11 review
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Ex-Ill. Gov. Urged to Give Up Pension | Ohio Coingate Felon, Bush Pioneer Tom Noe Sentenced | No New Trial for Abramoff crony David Safavian, Judge Rules | KS-AG: The GOP strategy revealed -- mix church and politics | Pork Database Bill Expected to Pass Tomorrow | Cheney to help Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY), who bullied wife with guns | Remember when war profiteering was unpatriotic?
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee are complaining that the NSA has played politics in support of their secret snooping program | Air Force chief: Test weapons on US mobs | Homeland Insecurity Goes After Greg Palast | Dems blast NSA memo on "talking points"
HOT POLITICS --Spitzer and Clinton Win in N.Y. Primary | Democrat Could Be 1st Muslim in Congress | Randy Graf Wins GOP Primary for AZ House Seat | Chafee Wins GOP Senate Nod in RI | Andy Cuomo Wins NY Attorney Gen. Nomination | Lincoln Chafee's Criticism of Bush Foreign Policy -- Including John Bolton -- Gets Boost | Adrian Fenty wins DC Democratic mayoral primary ||Mehlman to outspend Dean by 5 to 1 | Dirty GOP politics: What you say when you have nothing left to say Bush 9-11 prime-time address "nonpartisan"? Then why the echoes -- verbatim -- of recent campaign speeches? | Joe Lieberman, run over in the middle of the road | Dean, DCCC's Emanuel make up | This is what the US House has become... | Democrats Unanimous in Condemning Bush for Using National Tragedy for Partisan Gain | Is Washington, DC a vortex for bad hair? | Highlight reel! Sen. Conrad Burns on the campaign trail: senile, inept, unhinged... or all of the above? | GOP fractured over Bush, Iraq as candidates break with White House | The GOP double standard: how it works | Building a narrative: what Democrats can learn from GOP tactics | Chicken! TN GOP Senate Candidate Corker Rejects Invitation To Debate Harold Ford Jr. On Meet The Press | CA-04: (D) poll shows competitive race | AR-Gov: Beebe (D) surges | WA-Sen: Cantwell leaps forward | Doolittle's House Seat in Trouble? | George Felix Macaca Allen Jr's Ineptitude: The Screen Grab That Says It All | GOP Senate Contender McGavick's Drunk Driving Admission Sets Him Back In The Polls | Hastert Too Busy To Commemorate September 11 Until September 13 | Game Day in 9 States | Is Cheney's Influence Slipping? | Americans Say WH Politicizing Terror: "It Is The Only Card They Got"
QWAGMIRE -- Michael Ware dares tell the truth about the dismal situation in Baghdad | 60 torture victims found in Baghdad | Anbar report reveals continued failures in Iraq | Makin' good progress: 27 dead in Iraqi mass execution (WARNING: Moonie Press Link) | Political Wire asks a good question about the Bush boy's assessment of the big war | Watch this! Military leaders say 3 times the troops needed in Iraq | Rockefeller: Iraq Not Better Off Without Saddam
WAR CRIMES -- Senate abrogates duty to check balance of powers, makes huge tribunal concessions to Bush
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush Junta to release Luis Posada Carriles, a known terrorist |Syrians join US in gun battle to defend embassy, thwart homicidal terrorist cell | Military attorneys claim that a White House-backed bill would gut the Geneva Conventions and save alleged torturers from prosecution | Musharraf: Taliban worse than Qaeda | Apparently, Bush wants people to believe that al Qaeda is more threatening than the Nazis and the communists combined | Fear fear fear! Bomb threat clears Port of Los Angeles | Larry Johnson: Terrorism is overstated -- and Syria has stepped up to the plate and defended US diplomats from Islamic extremists | Feingold: The term "Islamic fascism" is fundamentally flawed | Al Qaeda Offshoot Group Blamed For Attack On US Embassy In Syria
BORDER BUNGLES -- GOP Scrambles To Distance Party From "Catch An Illegal Immigrant" Organizer Hired By College Republicans
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Did you know Osama bin Laden is making our foreign policy decisions now? | Dept. of Heckuva Job: Americans View Bolton As Symbol Of Foreign Policy Failures
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Katie and Rush and the face of corrupt corporate news | Finally, The News Picks Up the HUGE Story That Rumsfeld Threatened to Fire Anyone Who Suggested Planning for Post-invasion Iraq! | WaPo Taps White House War Salesman for Op-Ed Spot | After a week of "Free Speech" on The Katie Couric Show, no Democratic or liberal voices on national security | Democratic responses largely absent from network news coverage of Bush speeches on national security | Laffey And Chafee And Rove, Oh My!
FOX WATCH -- Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly nuanced view of foreign policy: warned of Nazi-Iraq parallels in 2003, Nazi-Iran parallels in 2006
$MIRKONOMICS -- White House: Deficits are not a problem. Uh huh...
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- U.S. facing diverse security challenges, many of stupid Bush boy's making | Chertoff Admits US Stretched Too Thin to Protect All Targets | Politics Jeopardize Ports Security Bill
ELECTION THEFTS -- MD-04: No winner yet thanks to e-voting glitches | Baltimore NAACP wins suit to give voters extra hour to vote | Maryland meltdown: Computerized hack boxes break down on primary day
JUSTICE WATCH -- Huh? GOP Senators put hold on "Federanista" Bush court nominee | Bush won't help fight the terror of crime in US cities
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- Straight shooter: Howard Dean slams RNC-funded "Fun With Guns" event at university in letter to Mehlman
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Harvard To Drop Early Admissions Program -- It Was Affirmative Action for the Rich
RACISM IN THE USA -- Opponent's Staff Got "Fiery" Gröpenführer Tape | Celebrating Treason and Racism: GOP Presidential Hopeful Tom Tancredo Speaks At Neo-Confederate Event In His Honor
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Fetus worshippers and their brilliant ideas | Feds Deny the Existence of "Gulf War Syndrome"
TRASHING NATURE -- Another Governor To Break With Bush Over Emissions

Sept. 12
American Airlines is threatening to sue Disney/ABC
A Disney shareholder demands accountability for deceptive "GOP-u-drama" on 9/11
Scoobie Davis commemorates Sept. 11th by Googlebombing "The Path to 9/11" | Watch this! The Daily Shoe rips ABC's 9/11 series | Disney/ABC appears to praise Bush reaction to PDB with meeting that never happened | Disney/ABC defames American Airlines AGAIN | Ratings for crock-u-drama? Not so good | ABC Consultant Richard Clarke Blasts First Installment Of Film, Hints At ABC Conspiracy | 9/11 Commission Vice Chair Lee Hamilton: "Path to 9/11" Is Not Good For the Country | Let's remember, Bush let 9/11 planner get away | ABC isn't marketing Path to 9/11 to their own employees | 9/11 movie trailer blames Clinton | ABC alters 9/11 film, airs disclaimer 3 times in first half | Watch this! Maher panel rips ABC crock-u-drama inaccuracies | ABC: history the way the world has never seen it before
The Post-9/11 Timeline
The lessons of September 11
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Businessman Gets 7 Years for Jefferson Bribery | GOP Senate Hopeful Gets Unwanted October Surprise? | Feds Probe B-Day Gift to Illinois Gov's Daughter
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- 9/11's Dark Window to the Future | How bad is Bush? The most radical President in history, that' how bad | Authoritarianist Bush advisor John Yoo summarizes the last 5 years in two short sentences
HOT POLITICS -- Democrats excluded from Bush's NYC wreath-laying photo-op | You can't build consensus when the men in charge embrace a series of myths | Manufacturing Consent, Example 370,871: 9/11, Elections & the Corporate Media | Is Tom Feeney crazier than Conrad Burns? FL GOP congressnut claims Clint Curtis accused him of "knowing about the 9/11 attacks not only before they happened, but before President Bush was elected" | Republicans, Democrats and independents are skeptical about Bush's motives in ratcheting up terrorism and Iraq PR two months before Election Day | On fifth anniversary of 9/11, Bush goes on defensive over failed Iraq war in Oval Office campaign speech | Rasmussen: Self-identified Republicans at 32-month low | Responding to the coming GOP smear campaign: here is how | Dennis Hastert doesn"t know the words to the National Anthem | Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Is Widespread | Florida GOP: Jeb won't help Katherine Harris | Assessing 2008 candidates: the "coattail" effect | If Chafee loses, GOP gives up on Rhode Island Senate race | MD-04: Edwards a real threat to Wynn | He's been treading on it for six years | Bush May Declare War on Wide Angle Lenses | Audience Shouts "Psycho" At Sen. Burns During Debate | GOP leadership hinges on Santorum election | Blog: Cheney didn't think unthinkable -- he did the predictable | GOPer rips "horrendous mistakes" of Bush | Dems. need the NY House seats
QWAGMIRE -- Armchair sleuths uncover strange military sites in China | Sen. Graham: "Iraq Is A Mess... We Have Screwed Up" | 9/11 memorial service in Afghanistan attacked during live broadcast
WAR CRIMES -- Republican Pushes Hardline Tribunal Bill
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Gunmen attack US embassy in Damascus, four dead | 911 ticket agent who gave Atta pass committed suicide | GOP Slips Partisanship Into 9/11 Anniversary | Sheldon Drobny on Terrorism and the Power Of Nightmares | CNN Poll: More Americans Blaming Bush For 9/11
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Rice hints of talks between US, Iran
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann tears into Chucklenutz: "Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have." | How do you know John Fund is lying? His lips move... | WaPo Hires Bush Speechwriter As Columnist | What a shock: Cable and broadcast coverage of September 11 anniversary skewed right | Eric Alterman goes to Media Matters | Tweety Matthews admits the press is McCain's base | Bush Takes Time During 9/11 Interview To Assure Public That Matt Lauer Has Hot Abs
FOX WATCH -- Fox News Reports – And Decides: America Is Safer
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Congress Demands Hewlett-Packard Records
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- McCain Blasts Security Upgrade Delays
ELECTION THEFTS -- Judge Won't Block AZ Voter ID Law
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Gröpenführer caves to bigots and bullies in vetoing Bias Free Curriculum Act
ENERGY SCANDALS -- A group of oil companies led by Chevron, which said last week that they had discovered a huge new oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, could avoid more than $1 billion in royalty payments to the federal government for the oil
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani admits everyone - including his administration - should have done more to protect workers from the toxic 9/11 attack site dust
TRASHING NATURE -- Man-made global warming fuels hurricanes, study finds

Sept. 11
Paul Krugman: Promises Not Kept
ABC CROCK-U-DRAMA WATCH -- Video Blogger spells out "The Path to 911" distortions, lies, slanders and falsehoods
Filing FEC complaints against ABC/Disney made easy | ABC retained fabricated scene showing Clinton officials aborting never-happened "mission" to capture Osama | Disney/ABC defames Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger; Will He Sue? | Disney/ABC defames American Airlines in worldwide broadcast | ABC's DC affiliate WJLA distances itself from crock-u-drama | The Shrinking Movie | Why all of ABC/Disney's bogus disclaimers don't mean jack | From the New Zealand broadcast: The path to distortions, lies, slanders and falsehoods in ABC's crock-u-drama | Mickey Mouse's Karl Rove: Meet Zenia Mucha | ABC/Disney 9-11 film also gets facts wrong about dead FBI agent, American Airlines | Got a TiVO? Got a DVR? Give ABC a Smackdown | Dumber than a bag of hammers: Disney/ABC gets Secretary of State Albright's name wrong in 9/11 schlock-u-drama | Disney crock-u-drama airs in New Zealand with defamatory scenes about Sandy Berger and Madeleine Albright, report says | Right-wing Christianist crock-u-drama director's worst nightmare: actor Harvey Keitel fact-checked his role and his lines | Former 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman (R) defends Disney schlock-u-drama
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Meet Terry Nelson, GOP dirty trickster | Halliburton Execs: You Gotta Fight! For Your Right! To [Throw a Taxpayer-Funded] Paaaarty! [in Iraq] | FL-13: GOP candidate in possible tax fraud
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Bush Appointee Pulls Plug on Whistleblower Fete | New issue of New York: Bush accused NY Times's Keller of having "blood on your hands"
HOT POLITICS -- Cheney attacks majority of Americans as well as GOP candidates | Watch this! Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice repeats false assertion: "There were ties going on [sic] between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein" | Suit says Halliburton defrauded taxpayers | Bush Exploited, Shamed Sept. 11, 2001 | Nearly Six Years: What Bush Has Done for the Country | Gay GOP Candidate Runs in MN Primary | Rove's next move: pure Hail Mary cynicism | Is MA Ready for a Black Governor? | Nev. Senate Hopeful Jack Carter Hospitalized | VA-Sen: The Reagan firestorm and the poll | The Republican party, divided and weak, has a problem | TX-Gov: Will Gov. Rick Perry lose his primary? | Democrat Jim Webb Gains Ground After George Felix Macaca Allen Jr's Gaffe | Connecticut Issues Shadow Other Races | Shutting down phony patriotism: It's time for the GOP to stop treating its overt partisanship and blind loyalty as the only way to love America | Bad news for the authoritarian right: Politics of fear losing its punch | Bill Clinton mocks GOP&146;s so-called grasp of security issues: "They've trotted that dog out for the last three elections - and it's got mange all over it"
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq soldier thinks new Baghdad offensive is really Bush "fighting for the House of Representatives" | Best! War!! Ever!!! | Cheney On MTP: Even Knowing Iraq Had No WMDs, He Would Still Have Gone To War
WAR CRIMES -- Bush confesses to war crimes
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Historians Will Morally Impeach George W. Bush For Exploiting, Not Honoring, Sept. 11, 2001 | Aid and Comfort to the World's Most Homicidal Terrorist: In Conflict Between Osama and Saddam, Bush Policy Aided Osama's Side | "I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down": Does the terrorist threat exist in the US? | Losing the War on Terror: Why Militants Are Beating Technology Five Years After Sept. 11, 2001 | US gave blessing to Pakistan cutting a deal with terrorists | Is the US behind illegal Somali covert ops? | Five Years In, Bush Is Losing the "War" Against "Terror"
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Worried CIA officers buying insurance | Condoleezza Rice reprises her role as Baghdad Bob
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- How terrorism ends: Hamas hints it may recognize Israel
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- 9/11 OpEds: One Great Big Stupid Lie After Another | Ninth Circuit Rules That Freelance Journalist Josh Wolf Must Comply With Federal Subpoena, Turn Over Video | Tim Russert, GOP tool that he is, failed to challenge Dick Cheney on terrorism, national security issues | Bottom line: Russert caught Cheney lying about Iraq and Al Qaeda on Meet the Press | Watch this! Neutralizing the New Spin: Katie Couric's interview of George Bush vs. the truth | On Meat the Priss, Dick "Dick" Cheney ignored the Senate Intel Committee report, and deceptively cited Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda connection | Enforcing the propaganda: Government pressure on TV networks is a tactic pioneered by the GOP
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Disney accused of using sweatshops
ENERGY SCANDALS -- BP pipeline workers were intimidated
HEALTH DEBACLES -- 60 Minutes: White House Officials Changed EPA Reports after 9/11 | MA GOP Gov. Mitt Romney politicizes public health

Sept. 10
Americablog's Path to 9/12/2006: Disney/ABC Must Pay For Their Lies | The Swiftboating of September 11 | Libel by a Mouse: Disney/ABC movie falsely claims American Airlines is to blame for 9/11
In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film | Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! There, Comrades | John Aravosis: Defamatory Sandy Berger scene in 9/11 show is THE culmination of the entire first half, it is IMPOSSIBLE to edit it out | Chicago Tribune TV Week Promotes Lies | The Path To A Decade-Old Movie Poster | New York Times corrects the record on Path to 9/11 reporting | The following link is drawn from actual historical photos and other published material | Disney/ABC 9/11 Fan Fiction Revolves Around Fabricated Scene | Salon.com Editor: ABC's Path to 9/11 Crock-u-drama is "worse than you think." | Slain Disney exec's husband: "I ... urge you not to air this film" | Disney/ABC Highlighting Faked Scenes In Ads For 9/11 Terror Porn | Path to 9/11: The Plot To Blame Clinton | Disney/ABC markets defamatory 9/11 show as "exactly what happened" in ads abroad | A Nation Sick And Tired of Fairy Tales | Must-see TV: Keith Olbermann hosted consultant who quit ABC film, cited "inaccuracies in the portrayal of John O'Neill, who is not here to defend himself" | FBI agents warned Disney/ABC that film was inaccurate A YEAR AGO, Disney/ABC refused to fix it
Rumsfeld forbade post-war planning for Iraq
WaPo: Bush gave Osama a pass to escape; Iraq war hurt US efforts to defeat Al Qaeda
Frank Rich: GWB flubbed his chance to be FDR
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Even a bag-lady can teach Bush about human rights | The President's FISA statements now are the opposite of what he said in October, 2001
HOT POLITICS -- WaPo: Desperate GOP plans to "get personal" and go negative with $45m worth of attack ads | New, hard-hitting DNC video slams Bush's newfound interest in Osama bin Laden two months before elections | Blog: GOP giving up on 3 Senate races | Al Gore Says He Hasn't Ruled Out 2nd Run | Spitzer Dominating NY Governor Race | Time's Hillary Clinton poll: Plurality love her
QWAGMIRE -- Resurgent Taliban, NATO Fighting in Afghanistan | Sen. John Rockefeller on Bush Iraq failure: world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq -- even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq | Taliban Resurgence Restricting Women's Freedoms In Afghanistan | Reality Vs. Bush: Afghanistan then and now | Is Afghanistan going the way of Iraq? | 40 Taliban killed in Afghanistan; NATO to up troops?
WAR CRIMES -- Bill would ease CIA interrogation limits | Bush's Detainee Plan Assailed; Military Lawyers and Senators Call Proposed Rules Unfair
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Al Qaeda Finds Its Center of Gravity | Ex-Taliban chief details murder of Massood
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Many law enforcement and intelligence officials paint a far different picture of the interrogation of al-Qaeda figure Abu Zubaydah than did Bush in his Wednesday speech | Senate Intel Committee Report Proves Bush Still Isn't Telling the Truth
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Senator Kerry denounces Bush's "Katrina foreign policy"
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Disney/ABC and Hugh Hewitt's audience of "millions" (not) | NY Times screws up Lamont letter story big time
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Bush, Dems Debate Post-9/11 Safety

Sept. 9
Secret Right-wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception: Christianists, Potemkin "Film Institute" and David Horowitz | Will Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger and Madeleine Albright threaten the BBC with a libel suit? | Gore On Path to 9/11: "It Would Be Fundamentally Irresponsible To Air Such Distortions" | Democratic party leader Howard Dean calls on Disney/ABC to reveal funders of slanderous 9/11 fictional documentary. Asks "Who funded this $40 million dollar slanderous propaganda?" | Disney/ABC hired right-wing propaganda network to put together 9/11 | Christian YWAM $$$ behind ABC Crock-u-drama
WaPo Pans Crock-u-drama | Disney's 40 Million Dollar Product Placement Pact With GOP Threatened | Two FBI Agents Question Accuracy of 9/11 Series | "Path to 9/11" being marketed in New Zealand as dramatization of the 9/11 Report | MSNBC hosts make series of misleading or baseless claims about The Path to 9/11 | Albright and Berger Call On ABC To Withdraw GOP-u-drama | Conservatives On ABC GOP-u-drama: 'Unacceptable,' 'Defamatory,' 'Strewn With A Lot of Problems,' 'Zero Factual Basis' | ABC Crock-u-drama Maker Has Evangelical Ties | What Outrage against Disney/ABC Looks Like | Even Bill Bennett Says ABC Should "Correct Those Inaccuracies" in GOP-u-drama! | Chris Wallace slams ABC on schlock-u-drama: "I think it's slanderous" | NSA story v. 9/11 film -- the "Liberal Mainstream Media" strikes again | Discussing The Path to 9/11, Limbaugh baselessly questioned 9-11 Commission report, smeared Clinton administration | Repetition-Convulsion Syndrome | ABC all over the map on The Path to 9/11: "locked and ready to air"; not "final"; "get[s] it right"; "fictionalized" | Mickey's War | Fact check: ABC Said Schmuck-u-drama Was "Locked and Ready To Air" | Kean Did Not Talk To Clinton About ABC Crock-u-drama Because "He Was Out Campaigning Against My Son Yesterday" | Clinton On GOP-u-mentary: Film Contradicts Factual Findings of the 9/11 Commission | Kean Did Not Talk To Clinton About ABC Crock-u-drama Because "He Was Out Campaigning Against My Son Yesterday"
New, hard-hitting DNC video smacks the Bush boy around for his newfound interest in Osama bin Laden five years after attacks on America and two months before elections
The attempted confirmation of John Bolton as US Ambassador to the UN is deader than Warren Harding
Senate Report: NO prewar Saddam-al-Qaeda ties | Senate: Even Saddam Hussein Saw Osama and Al Qaeda As Threat
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Halliburton execs in Iraq ordered big-screen TV and 10 large tubs of junk food delivered for 2006 Super Bowl - then billed US taxpayers for their party | Pork Database Bill Set to Move in House | International Gambling Exec, Former Abramoff Client Arrested
TRAITORGATE -- Armitage Confesses -- Now What About Karl Rove?
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Another major NSA legal defeat for the Bush administration | Five Years Ago Today…
HOT POLITICS -- 'Independent' Senator Lieberman clumsily makes it up as he goes along | Before Speeches, Rove and Bush Cooked Up Strategy to Bamboozle Nation and "Reset the Clock" | MT-Sen: Burns goes hard negative against Tester | VA Democrat Jim Webb Uses Reagan in Campaign Ad | ... and Nancy Reagan objects | Bush is campaigning for GOP candidates like Jim Talent | "Progress" [NOT!] for America Launches A New Ad To Help Scare Americans
QWAGMIRE -- Eustis chief: Rummy muzzled Iraq post-war plan early on | Afghanistan needs 2,500 more troops, says general | Operation Enduring Bloodshed | Afghan on US convoy attack worst since Taliban's fall
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bush faces Republican revolt over terror trials | Bill to Cripple Taliban Drug Trade Passes -- After GOP Tries to Kill It | Bombings in India kill 31, injure 100 | Belgian neo-Nazis held in terror plot
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Eric Umansky: Our corrupt mainstream media has ignored the torture and homicide committed in the name of the so-called War on Terror® |Obsessive Clenis Disorder Is Epidemic At NY Times | Will media note evidence contradicting Bush's claims about Zubaydah? | So where is Tony Snow's missing transcript?
PUNDIT PAYOLA -- Miami Journalists Outed for Taking Govt. Cash | Bush Cadre Continue to Use OUR Tax Dollars to Pay Off Journalists
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Telecom big pleads guilty to tax fraud
ELECTION THEFTS -- Election Nullification Rejected: Appeal to be Filed By Plaintiffs in CA-50 Election Contest
RACISM IN THE USA -- Gröpenführer Apologizes for Racial Stereotype Remark
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Debunking the Next Terri Schiavo Case

Sept. 8
Harassment: Greg Palast is facing a criminal complaint from the Department of Homeland Security stemming from his filming the Hurricane Katrina investigation for Link TV and Democracy Now
ABC is reevaluating and in some cases reediting crucial scenes in "Path to 9/11" | Senate Democratic leadership threatens Disney with legal and legislative sanctions | Scholastic Veers from "Path to 9/11"; materials to be revised and will include discussion of media honesty, critical thinking
9/11 Miniseries Is Bunk: Former US ambassador to Yemen says ABC traded fact for drama in portraying events after the 2000 bombing of the destroyer Cole | Harvey Keitel diverges from "Path to 9/11": "It turned out not all the facts were correct" | Former 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey warns ABC | Conservative Author Richard Miniter Shocks the Right: "There's ZERO Factual Basis" For Key Scene In Path To 9/11 | Watch this! Greg Mitchell: ABC film heavily weighted against Clinton, and screenwriter admitted to making scene up | Bwaah bwaah bwaaaah! Whiny ABC Statement: Criticisms of Path to 9/11 Are 'Premature and Irresponsible' | Conservative Media Watchdog Brent Bozell Says ABC Should Correct Inaccuracies In Path to 9/11 | Read the letter from Bill Clinton's lawyer to ABC | Clinton Sez Fix Crock-u-drama or Pull It | Path to 9/11 Writer Claims Controversial Scene Was 'Improvised'
ABC docudrama on 9/11 jettisons accuracy in favor of fictional sensationalism | The Disney/ABC Battle Is Lexington and Concord for Progressive Media | The Mouse That Whored | So, if the ABC 9/11 schlock-u-drama trashing Clinton is running without ads... | Worthy of Judith Miller: NY Times Falsely Claims 9/11 Commission Concluded Lewinsky Distracted Clinton Admin From Terrorism | Activists Contact Disney Chairman George Mitchell About Schlock-u-drama | "Path to 9/11" partly based on information from Bush administration PR official | ABC News: "Path to 9/11" Didn't Go Through Our Offices | MSNBC gets ABC's ridiculous statement on their 9/11 crock-u-drama | Kossack: My cousin who is a senior sales rep for Scholastic says... | The walls crash down around ABC crock-u-drama | The Path to Mickey | ABC statement on The Path to 9/11 claimed film not final, called attacks "premature and irresponsible" -- despite prior National Press Club screening, copies to conservatives | The (Disney) mouse doesn't scare the (GOP) elephant | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Neocons | FBI Agent Who Consulted On Path to 9/11 Quit Halfway Through Because 'They Were Making Things Up'
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- CQ: Senate Passes Pork Database Bill | GOP Dirty Tricks in New Hampshire? We're SHOCKED! | Bush pollster pleads guilty to fraud | AK Scandal Company Has Long History of "Influence" | Dem Still Holding Pork Database Bill
TRAITORGATE -- FOX News personalities serve up a host of CIA leak falsehoods, taking cue from misleading WaPo editorial | Broder, Hitchens, Frum, All Of Yous! There Is More To Traitorgate Than Armitage
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Wiretap bill stalls in committee
HOT POLITICS -- FL-24: Tom Feeney reveals plans to smear Clint Curtis as allegedly "having mental problems", calls Seminole Chronicle is "dumbass paper" to Chronicle editor's face! | NY Times Review of "Path" Misrepresents 9/11 Commission Report | Bush Losing Support Among Supporters | Democrats Can Win on National Security | CT-Sen: Race Centers (Too Much) on Iraq War | WA-Sen: Sen. Stevens (R) drags McGavick (R) into the muck | Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid says Disney/ABC should pull error-riddled 9/11 show | Tennessee GOP senate candidate Corker categorically refuses to debate Harold Ford on Meet the Press | Child Abuse: Santorum Uses His Kids In Pathetic Ad To "Hit Back" At Opponent
QWAGMIRE -- Makin' good progress: Iraq's unity thrown into doubt | US hands some military control back to Iraq | Iraq And Afghanistan: Why The National Security Focus Won't Work For Republicans | Hezbollah postwar PR in full swing | Pentagon incompetence: Afghanistan as deadly as Iraq for troops! | PA-07: Curt Weldon wants to subvert civilian oversight of military
WAR CRIMES -- Lawyers and G.O.P. Chiefs Resist Proposal on Military Kangaroo Courts for Terrorist Suspects | Too late to help, Bush says he regrets Abu Ghraib, "bring it on" | Pentagon lawyers question part of White House bill's provision limiting detainees' access to evidence
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Conservative appeaser! Shorter Dinesh D'Souza: Terrorists are scary, give them whatever they want! | The Pakistani government is in effect reverting to its pre-September 11, 2001, position in which it closed its eyes to militant groups allied with al-Qaeda | Tape said to show Qaeda leaders planning 9/11 attacks | France rejects war on terror
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Senate Reports on Prewar Intel to Drop at Noon Friday
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- John Bolton's official nomination as UN ambASSador looks dead
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Stay placed on FCC indecency ruling | Ignoring "The One Percent Doctrine": Media overlook crucial questions raised by Ron Suskind in his new book | Must-see TV: Karl Rove Earns the World's Worst
FOX WATCH -- FOX investigative reporter beaten on camera
WHAT A RUSH! -- CBS gave drug addict Rush Limbaugh a platform to attack nameless "critics" who are "not interested in victory," offer his definition of "patriotism"
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Buying friends: Wal-Mart and conservatives | GOP botched $3.7 BILLION in taxpayer funded loans
ELECTION THEFTS -- "Smoking gun" evidence uncovered in Ohio of massive vote fraud in 2004 election | Court rules against voters supervising elections, attorney tells Raw
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE Theocrats or theofascists? The Religious Right's true colors | Hilarious! Religious bigot Fred Phelps goes after Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Former BP Executive Refuses to Testify
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Christy Whitman: 9/11 health woes are NYC's, Giuliani Administration's fault

Sept. 7
John Aravosis sums up the last day's explosion of justified criticism aimed at ABC's biased, deceptive crock-u-drama | Major WaPo story on Disney/ABC scandal by Howie Kurtz paints Democrats as whiners, but also exposes two additional major errors in 9/11 depiction | Bill Clinton Breaks Silence On 9/11 Crock-u-drama | Disney/ABC insider tells conservative blogger that 9/11 film was engineered to "blame Clinton"
What a Political Elder Statesman: Thomas Kean Let 9/11 Movie Fabrications Slide | Mickey joins Team Rove | Disney/ABC filmmaker admits they just made stuff up | Another major error found in Disney/ABC fictional account of 9/11 | Executive Director of Democratic Party slams Disney/ABC for "slanderous" fictional TV show about 9/11 | Must-see TV! Richard Ben-Veniste rips ABC's crock-u-drama over inaccuracies | ABC Lies to FOX, Tells Ailes's Propaganda operation That Path to 9/11 "Is Based Solely and Completely on the 9/11 Commission Report" | Must-see TV: On Scarborough Country, former Bush intel official Roger Cressey confronted "factually wrong" Clinton-9/11 claims from Hirsen and Miniter | Fraud on our children: ABC-Sponsored teaching materials falsely suggest Iraq had WMD, link War in Iraq to 9/11 | Corrupt ABC Insider Assures Propagandist Right-wing Bloggers: "The Message of the Clinton Administration's [Fabricated] Failures Remains Fully Intact" | An Open Letter to ABC: Don't Airbrush 9/11 | Four incoming US House committee chairs call on Disney/ABC to fix error-laden depiction of 9/11 | Kean Waffles on Key Scene from Path to 9/11: "I Don't Think The Facts Are Clear... It Could Have Happened Any Number of Ways" | ABC Refuses to Provide Copies of Path to 9/11 to Clinton, Albright, Berger | E&P review decimates and debunks forthcoming fictional, Clinton-bashing, deceptive account of events leading to Sept. 11 | Must-see TV! Roger Cressey, a top counterterrorism official under Clinton and Bush Jr., calls crock-u-drama "shameful [and] straight out of Disney- and Fantasyland"
Lobbying-and-bribery probe eyes payments to disgraced ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's wife
Rove email in CIA leak case withheld for nearly a year, office printout shows
Bush Admits Secret CIA Jails Were Used to "Interrogate" Terrorism Suspects, Transfers Detainees To Gitmo For "Eventual" Tribunals
Steve Gilliard fisks Ken Mehlman's latest propaganda follow-through after Bush admits to using foreign prisons to interrogate terrorist suspects | In America, we jail our mentally ill | In America, we jail our mentally ill | Army bans infamous Gitmo techniques (yeah, right…) | AG Gonzales supports draconian, no-justice military tribunals for terrorist suspects | Stymied by the Supreme Court, Bush Seeks New Rules For Trials of Alleged Terrorists
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- GOP secretly channeled millions to Lieberman (WARNING: Moonie magazine link) | NBC News: Army May Have "Cooked The Books" On Defense Contractor Raytheon | Must-see TV! In the Senate Well, Ted Kennedy Confronts George Allen On Suspiciously Identical Senate Bill | Former IL Guv Ryan Gets 6 Years Plus for Corruption | Karl Rove brags, "I change constitutions, I put churches in schools" | K Streetwalker: Abramoff Called Rove Streetcorner Meets "Easier" | GOP Senate Hopeful Returns Cash from Scandal-Linked Company | Santorum: Greens Must Be Heard! (Translation: Money Talks!) | Michael Steele cuts ands run when confronted about lobbyist dollars backing his run
TRAITORGATE -- Scooter Libby hearings to be behind closed doors | The NY Times remains implicated in this Administration's abuse of power | Blog: Is NY Times trying to bail out Cheney?
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Republicans intend to retroactively "legalize" Bush Administration lawbreaking under warrantless surveillance, confused about how | HP chairwoman spied on cell phone records of board members | Of secret prisons, the ABC propaganda film and FISA matters | Senate report blames government and lenders for Sept. 11 loans that were misdirected | In 1975, Senator Frank Church warned the nation about the NSA... | Bush Plan Would Withhold Terror Evidence | In Second NSA Wiretap Case, Judge Sounds Concerns
HOT POLITICS -- Harry Reid Blasts Do-nothing Republican Congress | Robert Parry: Election 2006 & World War III | War Turns Southern Women Away From GOP | FL-15: Scholar For 9/11 Truth Lt. Col. Dr. Robert Bowman Wins Democratic Primary | GOP Infighting: Retiring GOP Congressman Joel Hefley (R-CO) Slams Primary Winner For "Sleazy" Campaign | FL-24: If wingnut Tom Feeney calls Clint Curtis the 'Craziest Man in America,' you know Curtis is a formidable candidate! | Disney/ABC flat-out REFUSED to provide Pres. Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger copies of its 9/11 crock-u-drama, though GOP bloggers got copies | Another setback for GOP chances in 2006 | Katherine Harris's Opponent "Would Have To Make A Huge, Stupid Mistake For This Race To Become Competitive" | AZ-08: GOPers Charge Mehlman Lied To Them | Poll: Iraq war could wound GOP in fall | FL-Gov: We might have a contest after all | MD-Comptroller: Nasty name-calling | What if you held a speech and nobody came? | Must-see TV! Roger Cressey, a top counterterrorism official under Clinton and Bush Jr., calls crock-u-drama "shameful [and] straight out of Disney- and Fantasyland"
QWAGMIRE -- ABC Reports From Iraq: "A Much-Publicized Drop-off In Violence...Apparently Didn't Exist" | New book Hubris set to reveal Bush's temper flaring over reporters; Cheney aides mistook watering hole for WMD hiding place | GOP Members of Congress Turning On Rumsfeld | Tony Snow stays the course on flip-flopping | How About Asking a Veteran What Supporting the Troops Really Means? | For Once, an Ex-Iranian President Is Correct: U.S. Military Action In The Middle East Has Backfired
WAR CRIMES -- Cognitive dissonance in action: While Bush was defending "tough" interrogation at one press conference, the Army was calling torture useless at another | "We tortured an insane man" | Bush doctrine on terror fails to convince public | Larry C. Johnson on What George Bush Didn't Say About Guantanamo | U.S. Army Bans Torture Of Prisoners. Yeah, sure... | Bush Secret Prison Admission: Wonder If Anyone Will Apologize to the WaPo and Dana Priest?
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. | Meet the first responders in what may be America's most tempting terror target: NYPD's terror trackers | Bush quotes bin Laden. Great. So where is he, Junior? | "They B.S. Us, We BS Them," U.S. Bin Laden Hunter Says of Pakistan
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- What If Bush Debated Ahmadinejad? | Watch this! Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) Says Bolton Has Endangered Our National Security and Should Be Filibustered | Iran abruptly delays talks with EU
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Calamity Katie: Couric on Bush on Torture, Limbaugh on Deck | Katie Couric and Leslie Moonves: A Study Of Shameless Self Promotion | Kristen Breitweiser writes a letter to Ann Coulter | Destroying Choice: Senators urge probe of Murdoch's DirecTV | Must-see TV! Keith Olbermann named Gingrich "Worst Person" for declaring that "appeasers" label is "not an insult" | Dumb as a bag of hammers: CNN's Abbi Tatton suggests "faithful" people means "white evangelicals" | Rove lobbied to get Abramoff, gay stepdad removed from book
FOX WATCH -- The kidnapped and released FOX News journalists are still being attacked by wingnut chickenhawks | Only on FOX! Was E.D. Shill impersonating Helen Thomas, or having an attack of Tourette's?
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- SEC probing 100+ companies on options
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- What homeland security? Sen. Charles Schumer blows lid off Team Bush blather, points out areas of NY that lack security | What took so damn long? DHS, FBI merge fingerprint data
ELECTION THEFTS -- How Many Elections Will Congress Seize Before We Stop Them? | Paul Lehto tells Raw Story court rules against voter-supervised elections
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Bush to blame for 9/11 workers respiratory ailments

Sept. 6
Firedoglake gets on ABC press conference call re. crock-u-drama
How YOU can help fight ABC's dishonest crock-u-drama
9/11 Commission member Richard Ben Veniste says key scene in Disney/ABC fictional account of September 11 is "a total fabrication" | Disney and The Dobsonites: Are Disney and ABC becoming willing tools of the right wing? | Samuel Berger on crock-u-drama scene: "It's a total fabrication. It did not happen." | Richard Clarke Blasts Key -- And Completely Fictional -- Scene In ABC's 9/11 Crock-u-drama | Congresswoman Louise Slaughter Calls for ABC to Come Clean on New 9-11 Crock-u-drama | Disney/ABC ticks off incoming US House committee chair by airing anti-Democrat propaganda on 9/11 anniversary | Blast from the past: Republicans and Islamic terrorism during the Clinton presidency | Blast from the past: Then-AG John "Jaayzus" Ashcroft "didn't want to hear of al Qaeda" in high threat summer of 2001 |