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Eugueni Kniazev (Dec. 11, 1954-Sept. 11, 2001)
My latest column, which is also a special news feature in today’s New York Post, is dedicated to the memory of the man pictured above. The story exposes how our behemoth, $34 billion Department of Homeland Security sent a green card approval notice on Jan. 15, 2005 to [...]

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has a great column in National Review Online defending the Justice Department’s actions in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He concludes:
The post-9/11 detentions were lawful, ethical, strategically appropriate, and involved an infinitesimal portion of the Muslim population in the United States. To have conducted the investigation [...]

Here’s the story of a con artist who thought he could rip off 9/11 charity funds with perhaps the most politically correct of ploys–claiming that his gay lover died at Ground Zero:
A man who collected $68,000 from a charity by falsely claiming his boyfriend died in the World Trade Center attacks has pleaded guilty to [...]

During his DHS confirmation hearing, Michael Chertoff will likely receive heavy criticism for his role in the DOJ round-up of Middle Eastern illegal aliens in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News has launched the first volley in what is likely to become a meme:
[W]hile Chertoff may [...]

Don Rumsfeld’s remarks regarding Flight 93 having been “shot down” over Pennsylvania caused a bit of buzz over the weekend. Here’s what he said:
And I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people [...]

Lyz Glick, wife of Flight 93 Hero Jeremy Glick, has published a book of letters to her husband and 3-year-old daughter. Unlike the hyperpartisan “Jersey Girls,” a group of shameless Bush-bashing 9/11 widows, Glick avoids politics and refuses to discuss policy and legal matters:
Glick has resumed teaching anthropology classes online from her home for Berkeley [...]

Yet another public school has allowed a teacher to show Michael Moore’s crockumentary to students. From the Seattle Times:
MILL CREEK — A high-school teacher’s classroom showing of the controversial film “Fahrenheit 9/11″ has some local Republicans fired up.
Judy Baker, a teacher at Henry M. Jackson High School, showed the anti-Bush documentary last week to [...]

Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School, and his colleague David Mills, a lecturer at Stanford Law School, write in a Slate op-ed (”The Case Against John Ashcroft: Why don’t Democrats condemn the disastrous attorney general?“):
We have seen major terrorist prosecutions brought with much political publicity fail with hardly a whimper. The major jury [...]

A reader sends along the tragic obituary of an Army civilian analyst whose wife died at the Pentagon on 9/11:
Kenneth Edelle Foster, 51, a retired Army sergeant whose wife lost her life at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, died Oct. 10 at his home in Arlington, Tex., of pulmonary fibrosis and congestive heart failure. [...]

This is Jonathan Borofsky’s “Walking to the Sky,” on exhibit at Rockefeller Center until Oct. 18. Several figures, including a businesswoman, a grandmother, and a child, ascend the 80-foot-pole. The artist says he didn’t have Sept. 11 in mind when he created it, but rather childhood memories of stories his father told him about walking [...]

Today, libraries in King County, Wash, will commemorate the third anniversary of September 11, 2001, by sharing touchy-feely “ideas about democracy, citizenship and patriotism” as part of “The September Project.”
Here’s what some of the participating libraries are doing:
* At Bellevue and Federal Way libraries, a theater group called Book-It All Over! will present a production [...]

Being caught up in my book tour, I neglected to post a link to this week’s column. An excerpt:
The third anniversary of Sept. 11 is upon us. We remain at war — and the media remain in denial.
How many times have you picked up a newspaper and read about terrorist attacks perpetrated not by [...]

Don’t let the Labor Day holiday be an excuse to slack off and neglect the ongoing horror and suffering of Russian parents and children at the hands of Islamic terrorists.
Read about this Sophie’s Choice nightmare.
Take in the heart-wrenching photos and heart-stopping live-blogging at Logic & Sanity. (Hat tip: Jeff Quinton.)
Read more about the female suicide [...]

According to an Associated Press article describing a new addendum released by the 9/11 Commission, two of the 9/11 hijackers “lied on their applications ‘in detectable ways’ but were not questioned about those lies. And all 19 of the hijackers’ applications had data fields left blank, or were incomplete in some other way.”
Columnist Joel Mowbray [...]

I have been amazed at the speed and creativity with which bloggers have digested and dissected the 9/11 report. Here are a few useful links I’ve found helpful.

Iraq references in the report via Q and O.
Search the entire report.

Summary of the report with permalinks via Jason Kottke (hat tip: Jeff Jarvis, who has much good [...]

One significant omission strikes me in Section 3.4 of the 9/11 report (PDF file), which provides a historical overview of the failures of the intelligence community to adapt to the “new terrorism.” The commission recounts CIA debacles dating back to the Bay of Pigs and details the woes of the understaffed Clandestine Service through the [...]

If you haven’t seen the New York Times story posted late this afternoon on the 9/11 report’s account of Flight 93, you are in for another bone-chilling experience. Excerpt:
Of the 33 passengers on the plane who were not hijackers, at least 10, and two crew members, spoke to people on the ground. At least five [...]

Just got back from D.C. I’m on deadline until this evening and won’t get to the 9/11 report until the wee hours. For now, make sure to read the always must-read analysis of Andrew McCarthy at NRO.
On a lighter (or is it heavier?) note, IMAO offers a very useful primer on black holes in light [...]

Bad advice from a 911 dispatcher. Read the whole chilling transcript. Via Nashville Files Blog.
Bill Hobbs comments: “Moral of the story: Take responsibility for your own defense.”
Update: A police dispatcher disagrees: “From reading the transcript alone, the dispatcher did just what they were supposed to do: keep the caller on the phone and as calm [...]

Or night, as it were.
If you haven’t already seen this takedown of the 9/11 Commission by Andrew McCarthy, it’s devastating.