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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton, angrily defending his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden, accused the Bush administration of doing far less to stop the al Qaeda leader before the September 11 attacks. In a heated interview to be aired on Sunday on "Fox News Sunday," the former Democratic president defended the steps he took after al Qaeda's attack on the USS Cole in 2000 and faulted "right-wingers" for their criticism of his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden. "But at least I tried. That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are...

In New Letter, Bill Clinton's Lawyers Say Iger Assured Them Of "Appropriate Edits" And Hammer Film As "Disgraceful"By Greg Sargent After watching the first installment of "The Path to 9/11," Bill Clinton's lawyers have written another blistering letter to Disney chief Robert Iger. In the letter -- which we've obtained -- Clinton lawyers Bruce Lindsey and Douglas Band write that they actually spoke to Iger twice and that Iger assured them that he was "personally taking the responsibility to ensure that appropriate edits to the film would be made." But, the lawyers add: "Having now seen the first night of...

ABC Execs Get Death Threats Over "Path To 9/11" Unlike Mr. McMahon and his hyperventilating Democratic colleagues, I've actually watched the miniseries in question-- in its entirety -- and there is no chance that any sane observer who bothers to sit through all five hours of this riveting presentation could ever describe it as "right wing propaganda."... http://michaelmedved.townhall.com/Blog.aspx

By Kathy Blumenstock, Washington Post Staff Writer, TV Week, Page 5(Exerpt) Actor Harvey Keitel, star of ABC's "The Path to 9/11", said he believes movies and TV programs detailing what happened that day are important.......Filming the story behind the attacks "evoked in all of us...a sense of responsibility to the heroes of that day, to be as truthful as is humanly possible to honor them," (Harvey) Keitel said. "There isn't anyone from the top on down to the caterer and prop master who didn't have it in their bones to get it right."Keitel, who lives in New York's TriBeCa...

The attack by Bill Clinton and his allies on the upcoming ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11" is "outrageous," charges former Clinton aide Dick Morris. As NewsMax has reported, Bill Clinton through his surrogates have demanded that ABC "correct all errors" in the docudrama or pull it from the air, charging that it is a "fictitious rewriting of history" regarding President Clinton's handling of the terrorist threat. But Morris claims that Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, and the president himself "were both responsible for failing to catch or kill bin Laden on several different occasions." Morris has served Clinton...

President Bush claims he’s serious about immigration enforcement. Here’s one way he could show it. The Orange County, Ca., sheriff has asked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to train and deputize his detectives in immigration law and to authorize them to enforce it. That way, when a sheriff’s detective comes across an illegal-alien gang suspect, he can get him off the street immediately on an immigration charge. ICE has sat on Sheriff Michael Corona’s request (which conforms to a 1996 federal law) for ten months. If President Bush wants to demonstrate that he is willing to protect the country...

Liberals still don't know why they lost: Party feels no need to discipline Joe Volpe for his questionable election practices The Edmonton Journal Sun 11 Jun 2006 Page: A18 Section: Opinion Byline: Lorne Gunter The federal Liberals still just do not get it. They cannot come to grips with what it is about their ethics and attitude that finally put off enough voters to dislodge them from power last January. Yes, I'm talking about Joe Volpe, the Toronto MP and leadership candidate who took $27,000 in campaign donations from five children; money he has since returned. But I am...

As a party eager to shake off its recent history of governance and ethical scandals, the Liberals had a bad week. A major fraud conviction served to remind Canadians of the sponsorship scandal that helped dislodge them from power last January. Their parliamentary caucus expelled a senator from its ranks after he was found to have abused his tax-funded expense account. Toronto MP Joe Volpe remained adamant that he had done nothing wrong while raising money for his leadership bid and would not quit the race despite mounting pressure on him to withdraw. And the Canadian Press news agency uncovered...

OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF New auditor general's report on registry leaked Liberals are said to have tried to obscure huge costs OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government is getting ready to mark its first 100 days in office next week with renewed assaults on the federal Liberals, especially their record on gun control and the sponsorship program. Harper confirmed yesterday that he is looking into "all the legal avenues" for retrieving government money allegedly funnelled to the federal Liberal party from the sponsorship and advertising program that was intended to build Canada's presence in Quebec. In the wake of Justice John...

  Why Did the Bush Administration Really Decide to Invade Iraq? 12 July 2003 Three months after US military forces smashed the last major Iraqi resistance to the US invasion and captured Baghdad and in view of the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have yet been found, Americans are starting to wonder what really motivated the Bush Administration to take the nation into a war against a country like Iraq. This is particularly the case since it has become increasingly clear in retrospect that Iraq did not pose anything resembling the imminent threat to the United States that...