Cursor's Media Patrol - 09/06/06

The Bush administration claims that detainees of the U.S. military will now be "ensured humane treatment" and acknowledges the existence of CIA prisons in announcing the transfer of "14 high-value terrorism suspects" to Guantanamo.

The newly updated "National Strategy For Combatting Terrorism" makes no mention of bin Laden by name, saying instead that "the enemy we face today in the war on terror is not the same enemy we faced on Sept. 11."

In an interview with NPR, the New Yorker's Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower," discusses the importance of a U.S. attack on Iran to al Qaeda's "20 year master plan" leading to "total apocalyptic war on unbelievers."

Before examining 'Osama's Bank Account,' "Ghost Wars" author Steve Coll participated in an e-mail correspondence with Wright on the relationship between Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

A New Yorker panel surveys 'The World After 9/11,' in which a new Zogby poll finds that almost a third of all Democrats believe there was a link between Saddam Hussein and the attacks on New York and Washington.

Firedoglake rounds up reaction to David Corn's revelation that former CIA agent Valery Plame Wilson was "operations chief of the Joint Task Force on Iraq" -- which was "ramped up several months before 9/11 even occurred."

"Seriously bad news" A New York Times editorial goes 'In Search of Accurate Vote Totals,' and a Mother Jones report challenges citizens in '11 of America's worst places to cast a ballot' to 'Just Try Voting Here.'