Great catches!!!
From your links....
WaPo:
In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners’ plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.
Letterman/Rather xscript:
RATHER: I don’t have the answer to that question, I come back to, some evil is just — it can’t be explained.
LETTERMAN: Are these people happy are they joyous —
RATHER: No —
LETTERMAN: Are they celebrating, ‘thank God’
RATHER: Oh absolutely, they’re celebrating, there’s one report, this has not been confirmed, but there are several reliable reports there was a cell, one of these cells across the Hudson River, and they got on — this is the report and I emphasize I don’t know this for a fact but there’s several witnesses who say this happened, they got on the roof of the building to look across, they knew what was going to happen, they were waiting for it to happen, and when it happened they celebrated they jumped for joy to see this happen, it was a great triumph, its inconceivable to me and to you, but David this is what we have to understand as a country, we’re not dealing with the kind of thing we dealt with in any war we’ve ever fought before, because we’ve never dealt with these kind of hateful to the core evil people.
If you have a link to this you should post it here.