AP via Houston Chronicle:

The Pentagon's top uniformed lawyers took issue Thursday with a key part of a White House plan to prosecute terrorism detainees, telling Congress that limiting the suspects' access to evidence could violate treaty obligations.

Their testimony to a House committee marked the latest time that military lawyers have publicly challenged Bush administration proposals to keep some evidence--such as classified information-- from accused terrorists. In the past, some military officials have expressed concerns that if the U.S. adopts such standards, captured American troops might be treated the same way. Read on...

Republicans such as John McCain, Lindsey Graham and John Warner have also raised issues with the White House's desire to essentially hold "kangaroo courts." But predictably, Bill Frist was quick to step up and put party before country and back Bush's desire to ignore the Pentagon, the military and the Geneva Conventions.

It begs the question: who will be the first to voice outrage and condemn some other country if they prosecute one of our soldiers the way Bush wants to prosecute his suspected terrorists? Will it be acceptable for Iraq or Afghanistan to violate the Geneva Conventions and hold trials without telling our soldiers what they are charged with or letting them see the evidence against them? Will it be considered fair for them to fly our soldiers to secret prisons and torture confessions out of them?

Bill Bennett appeared on CNN this morning to talk about The Path to 9/11

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It is interesting to see an ultra-conservative like Bennett come out in opposition to this movie. Bennett takes the position that people should not alter or put words into the mouths of cabinet members. Hopefully more on the right will listen to Bennett, especially with such a recent and tragic memory as 9/11.

Berube...

Chris has no love for Disney over their depiction of his father, but he came out slamming ABC's" Path to 9/11" on Fox & Friends.

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Wallace:...but when you put somebody on the screen and say that's Madeleine Albright and she said this in a specific conversation and she never did say it, I think it's slanderous, I think it's defamatory and I think that ABC and Disney should be held to account.---it better be what she said or I think she has a heck of a case...

The dimwit over at F&F's tried to change the topic, but Wallace got him back on track and brought up the Reagan/CBS project

Brent Bozell showed up earlier on the show and was quite pleased with ABC's fakeumentary. That shows you what he's all about. Here's what he said about the Reagan film:

Brent Bozell, November 5, 2003 Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, scoffed at the notion that CBS was stifling free speech. "There is no such thing as creative license to invent falsehoods about people," Bozell said. "I don't care who you are. You don't have that right." (h/t Glenn)

Even Jpod is against this pic.

Matt Stoller pens a great piece.

Christy: ACTION: Variety: ABC Thinking About Yanking Path to 9/11

UPDATE: Newshounds emails us to point out that 9/11 Commission Chairman Kean distorts his own report.

It's not like many of us didn't already know this. but ...

There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush's justification for going to war

This is a big right wing talking point and one that Hitchens uses quite frequently. Stephen Hayes, Cheney's new bio author, wrote a book about it. Shame on him. Here's the pdf links for the report...here and here.

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AP:

KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of U.S. military vehicles Friday in downtown Kabul, killing at least 16 people, including two American soldiers, and wounding 29 others. It was the Afghan capital's deadliest suicide attack since the Taliban's 2001 ouster. The blast near the U.S. Embassy came as NATO chiefs appealed for member nations to send reinforcements to combat resurgent Taliban militants fanning the deadliest violence in five years. A top British general said the fighting in volatile southern Afghanistan was now more ferocious than in Iraq...read on

TalkLeft: As ABC prepares to air a phony docudrama, Al-Jazeera is airing real footage of Osama bin Laden meeting with the 9/11 hijackers days before the attack.

The Left Coaster: Giuliani and Bush ignored air warnings after 9/11

Pensito Review: Elected officials are getting paid to sell out environment

onegoodmove: Naysayers...meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would make it more difficult for Americans to challenge church-state violations in court.

bridget in the sixth: Best campaign ad yet? (h/t Blue Gal)

MadKane: Haiku
ABC movie
Shifts Nine-one-one blame through lies,
To steal votes from Dems.

Today the conservative organization Progress for America is launching a new ad that could almost become a teaser for The Path to 9/11

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Progress for America says in their press release that:

The ad seeks to remind Americans of why the U.S. and its allies are fighting the war on terror. "Many seem to have forgotten the evil that happened only five years ago," the ad plays. It then chillingly runs through a list of the attacks terrorists have launched against the U.S. with bold images that take the viewer back to the time of the terrifying events. The ad links those events over the last decade to the efforts to kill and capture terrorists still threatening the U.S. The ad closes with, "the War on Terror is a war for our country's freedom, security and survival."

What strikes me as very interesting is that PFA decided to release this video on the same weekend ABC is set to air The Path to 9/11.

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Zach Roberts

Yes, the rumor’s true. 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. The film’s producer, Matt Pascarella, is also facing the legal wrath of Big Brother. It

appears the complaint is about filming a sensitive national security site owned by Exxon petroleum. It seems that photographing major Bush donors is now a federal offense...read on