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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage on Thursday acknowledged being the original source in the leak of a CIA official's identity and expressed regrets and apologies in media interviews."It was a terrible error on my part," Armitage told The New York Times. "There wasn't a day when I didn't feel like I had let down the president, the secretary of state, my colleagues, my family and the Wilsons. I value my ability to keep state secrets. This was bad and I really felt badly about this."Armitage was the first person to discuss the identity of former...

Under growing pressure from Democrats and aides to former President Bill Clinton, ABC is re-evaluating and in some cases re-editing crucial scenes in its new mini-series “The Path to 9/11” to soften its portrait of the Clinton administration’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden, according to people involved in the project. Among the changes, ABC is altering one scene in which an actor playing Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser, abruptly hangs up on a C.I.A. officer during a critical moment in a military operation, according to Thomas H. Kean, a consultant on the ABC project and co-chairman of...

ABC has changed its "The Path to 9/11" television special, set for a commercial-free broadcast Sunday and Monday, because of pressure over the message it carries, according to a report on a television blog site. The network heard from a number of leading political figures, many of them Democrats, who complained of alleged inaccuracies and bias in the production, according to the report in the Los Angeles Times' CalendarLive.com website. The report said the five-hour docudrama also is in the middle of an information war between a left-wing organization that wants changes made in the film and conservative blogs defending...

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Senate Dems: Cancel ABC 9/11 Movie Urging him to cancel the grossly inaccurate upcoming miniseries "The Path to 9/11," the Senate Democratic Leadership on Thursday sent the following letter to Disney President and CEO Robert Iger. *snip* The text of the letter, signed by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, and Senators Debbie Stabenow, Charles Schumer, and Byron Dorgan, is below. Mr. Robert A. Iger President and CEO The Walt Disney Company 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank CA 91521 Dear Mr. Iger, We write with serious concerns about the planned upcoming broadcast of The Path...

Armitage On CIA Leak: 'I Screwed Up' CBS Exclusive: Interview With Man Who 'Outed' CIA Agent Valerie Plame WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (GETTY) Quote "I thought every day about how I'd screwed up." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Armitage WHAT DO YOU THINK? (CBS) In an exclusive interview with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, Richard Armitage, once the No. 2 diplomat at the State Department, couldn't be any blunter. "Oh I feel terrible. Every day, I think I let down the president. I let down the Secretary of State. I let down my...

ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday . . . The ABC executive said the "adjustments and refinements" are "intended to make clearer that it was general indecisiveness" by federal officials that left the country vulnerable to terrorist attacks, "not any one individual." The executive, who requested anonymity because the network is making only written comments, said small revisions have been underway for weeks. The network's move...

Expressing regret for his actions and apologies to his administration colleagues, Richard L. Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state, confirmed today that he was the source who first told a columnist about the intelligence officer at the center of the C.I.A. leak case. “It was a terrible error on my part,” Mr. Armitage said in an interview. He added, “ There wasn’t a day when I didn’t feel like I had let down the President, the Secretary of State, my colleagues, my family and the Wilsons. I value my ability to keep state secrets. This was bad and I...

ABC's upcoming miniseries "The Path to 9/11" is generating a firestorm among members of the Clinton administration, who claim the two-part, made-for-TV film is filled with factual errors and lies. Three members of the administration — former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger and Clinton aide Bruce Lindsey, who now heads the Clinton Foundation — have sent letters to Walt Disney Company, parent of ABC, demanding that it re-edit or pull the five-hour film, scheduled for air Sunday and Monday nights without commercial interruption. Albright, who is featured prominently in the film, wrote...

Although Kosovo set a terrifying precedent for Israel, at least two Jews are happy about it. In a recent Wall St. Journal-Europe piece titled Balkan Choice", Morton Abramowitz and Mark Schneider write that Serbian President Vojislav Kostunica's opposition to Kosovo independence risks making his country an "international pariah." Have these two been asleep for 15 years? Serbia has been a pariah since it began fighting Islamo-nationalist terror without the West's permission. Serbs were the first ones fingered in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the ones bombed by Bill Clinton in 1995 for a Sarajevo marketplace massacre - despite...

When Nicholas Grunke last week spotted a newspaper photo of Laura Tennessen, the Wisconsin man apparently became so smitten that he plotted a rendezvous with the 20-year-old woman. But the photo Grunke saw accompanied an August 27 obituary of Tennessen, who died in a motorcycle accident. Undeterred, Grunke allegedly plotted with his twin brother Alex and a friend, 20-year-old Dustin Radke, to rob Tennessen's grave so that he could have sex with her corpse. Details of the trio's degenerate scheme are contained in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in Grant County Circuit Court. A copy of the document can be...

LONDON (Reuters) -- Oil prices tumbled more than a dollar Wednesday, falling below $68 a barrel and breaking a key support level. U.S. light crude for October delivery fell $1.15 to $67.45 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. For U.S. crude, the 200-day moving average, considered a funds buy/sell trigger, was effective around $67.50. Prices have fallen by more than $11 from a record of $78.65 hit on Aug. 8 when concerns of supply disruption ran high. Since then, diplomatic efforts to try to resolve Iran's dispute with the West have eased worries of possible disruption of the...

US pop superstar Janet Jackson hopes Hillary Clinton will become the first woman president of the United States. "Hillary Clinton as president -- that would be great," Jackson said in an interview with German press agency DPA Monday. "Then she could show all those people who wouldn't trust a woman with such a job." Jackson, who is currently promoting her new album "20 Y.O.", declined to criticise US President George W. Bush directly, saying only: "I am not satisfied with the situation in this world. I hate war." New York senator Clinton, the wife of former US President Bill, last...

NEW YORK -- A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying "weapons of math instruction." "Al-gebra is a problem for us," Gonzales said. "They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off...

The Iraqi authorities have announced the arrest of a man they say is the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Iraq's national security adviser, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, told a news conference the man, Hamad Jama al-Saedi, was detained a few days ago. Mr Rubaie said the man was behind the bombing of a Shia shrine in Samarra in February that drew revenge attacks. American troops killed the insurgent group's key leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in June. "We announce today the arrest of the most important al-Qaeda leader after the criminal Abu Ayyub al-Masri. He's the second man in the organisation," Mr Rubaie...

Four Canadian troops killed Military reports casualties in Afghanistan Donald McArthur CanWest News Service Sunday, September 03, 2006 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Four Canadian soldiers were killed Sunday and several more wounded in fierce fighting in southern Afghanistan, Canadian forces officials confirmed during a news conference. Sunday's casualties increase to 12 the number of Canadian soldiers who have died in Afghanistan since Aug. 3. The identities of two of the soldiers were released -- Warrant Officers Richard Francis Nolan and Frank Robert Mellish of CFB Petawawa. They served with the first batallion of the Royal Canadian Regiment. A briefing map...

AOL Book Maven Bethanne Patrick Interviews Louann Brizendine, M.D., author of 'The Female Brain.' Dr. Louann Brizendine may be a neuropsychiatrist, but she hasn't forgotten how to speak to the General Public: "Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," she writes. Men, however, "have O'Hare Airport as a hub for processing thoughts about sex, where women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes." Brizendine, the 53-year-old Yale-trained head of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic at UCSF, pulls no punches when it comes to explaining that...

Reuters, July 10 - 2000 BERLIN - Thousands of Iranians demonstrated in Berlin on Monday against a visit by President Mohammad Khatami despite tight security and incessant rain. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCR) said over 20,000 people had attended the rally, while 10,000 had been prevented from getting there. The protesters beat drums, waved Iranian flags without the central Islamic symbol and carried banners with slogans such as "Trade with the mullahs hurts human rights." Paintings portrayed Khatami with vampire teeth and breathing fire.Huge screens showed satirical political videos, while men dressed as imams led others...

Warplanes and artillery pounded Taliban fighters hiding in orchards Sunday during a big Afghan-NATO offensive that the alliance said killed more than 200 militants in its first two days. Four Canadian soldiers also were killed. If the estimate is confirmed, the battle would be one of the deadliest since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime five years ago. Reporters could not reach all the combat zone because officials barred traffic from all but one road in this part of southern Kandahar province. An Associated Press reporter who traveled to Pashmul saw warplanes drop five bombs within about 20 minutes on...

MIKE MALLOY FIRED BY AIR AMERICA RADIO There will be no Mike Malloy program on Air America Radio as we have been terminated as of 8/30/06. We are as shocked as you are, especially since as recently as last Tuesday we were told we had the go-ahead to announce our return to NY airwaves and that our contract was "on the way." We are told it's a financial decision. More details to follow as we hear them ourselves. Members of the press can contact malloyproducer@aol.com to schedule interviews.