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T CORRECTIONS
l A Sally Jenkins column in the Sept. 7 Sports section incorrectly
said that “Lombardi,” a Broad- way play about NFL coaching legend Vince Lombardi, is being produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. The play was written by Steppenwolf Theatre Company member Eric Simon- son, but the producers are Tony Ponturo and Fran Kirmser. The column also incorrectly said that the play focuses on five charac- ters; it focuses on six.
l In the Sept. 2 Sports section, the recap that appeared with the
box score of the previous day’s baseball game between the Texas Rangers and the Kansas City Royals actually described a game the two teams played Aug. 31, which was won by the Royals. As the headline and the box score indicated, the Rangers won the Sept. 1 game, 4-3.
l A graphic with the continua- tion of an Aug. 2 PageOne article
about Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and his focus on the national debt incorrectly said that the “Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Paul Ryan’s planwould cut the budget deficit in half by 2020.” The CBO report showed that Ryan’s plan would cut the deficit in half compared with another fiscal scenario it
examined. But that scenario makes assumptions based on proposals that have not been enacted into law, such as the extension of tax cuts passed during the George W. Bush ad- ministration.
CLARIFICATION
l A TV Column itemin the Aug. 5 Style section may have created
a misimpression regarding Pete Rose’s ban from Major League Baseball andwhether Rose could enter the Baseball Hall of Fame once he is dead. The itemquoted filmmaker Ken Burns as saying that Rose should be in theHall of Fame, but only after Rose dies. It then said that Rose was “banned for life from baseball” in 1989 because of involvement with gambling. That could be read as implying that Rose could be inducted once deceased. But that description and the term “life- time ban,” while frequently used in stories about Rose, are not accurate. In fact, Rose was placed on Major League Base- ball’s “permanently ineligible” list. That permanent ban, unless lifted, will continue after Rose’s death. And the Hall of Fame, a separate entity, has decreed that anyone on Major League Base- ball’s permanently ineligible list cannot enter the Hall of Fame.
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DANA MILBANK Washington Sketch
for generic enthusiasm
he Democrats, facing an electoral washout in No- vember of the sort rarely
seen since the time of Noah (D- Mount Ararat), have launched their autumn campaign with one of the underdog’s time-honored strategies: pooh-poohing the polling. “I don’t put too much stock in
polls 55 days before an election,” President Obama’s top tactician, David Axelrod, told Meredith Vieira on the “Today” show Wednesday morning. “Look, I don’t think the Ameri-
can people are sitting there with poll numbers at their kitchen table,” Axelrod informed Erica Hill on CBS’s “Early Show.” Democratic National Commit-
teeChairmanTimKainepusheda similar message. “I’mnot particu- larly worried about some of the polls,” he offered MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Kaine then took his anti-poll campaign to Philadelphia, where he held a rally with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. “Polls are polls,” Rendell proclaimed, “but polls 60 days out don’t mean a whole lot of, uh, things, uh, or have very much importance.” As campaign themes go, “pay
no attention to the polls” is sel- dom a winner. And while it’s technically true that the only poll that matters is Election Day, it’s also notable that the public opin- ion surveys and the forecasting models are all pointing heavily in the same direction. Still, the Democrats have few
options but to fight the tyranny of the numbers. Polls and forecasts will become self-fulfilling if they further depress Democratic vot- ers and convince them there’s no point in voting. This explains Axelrod’s forceful response to NBC’s Vieira when she read him the NBC-Wall Street Journal poll finding a nine-point “generic” advantage for Republi- cans over Democrats. “Believe
me, Meredith, people in America aren’t sitting around reading the NBC News poll. They’re looking at their bills,” he said. Around the same time, Fox
News’s Brian Kilmeade informed Kaine that forecaster Larry Saba- to “says you’re going to lose 47 seats right now and Charlie Cook says you’re going to lose about 40 seats right now.” Kaine’s retort: “Larry Sabato said I wasn’t going to be governor; he said President Obama wasn’t going to win Vir- ginia’s electoral votes.” During another stop on the anti-poll tour, MSNBC’s Scarbor- ough challenged Kaine to explain how he’ll avoid being “captain of the Titanic.” “President Obama was down
by 10 points in the Gallup poll right after Labor Day in 2008 and won handily,” he answered. All this talk of pollingmet with
Rendell’s disapproval. In his warm-up speech in Philadelphia before Kaine, the governor chal- lenged the pollsters’ notion of an “enthusiasm gap” that makes Re- publicans more likely to vote. “The enthusiasm gap is all the
press talks about, all the polls talk about, and the truth of thematter is ifwecan bridge the enthusiasm gap we’re going to win,” he said. Andif wisheswerehorses, then
beggars would ride. “The Wall Street Journal poll,
which had us down 10 points in the generic congressional test among likely voters, among regis- tered voters had us dead even,” Rendell argued. “If we get those registered voters out . . . we will win!”
And if turnips were swords, I’d
have one bymy side. Kaine picked up the theme
after Rendell’s introduction. “The election isn’t about generic polls,” the party chairman pleaded. “It’s not about generic polls, because they’re not generic candidates.” Kaine, recalling his own victo-
ries after being down in the polls, tried to put the party’s troubles in perspective. “People tell me all the time, ‘Man, you’re DNC chair, it’s a tough job,’ ” he said. “Look, I took a year off when I was many of your age and I went and worked with missionaries in the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere in Hondu- ras and I saw what a tough job was.” It had the makings of a new
MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS Tim Kaine, poll vaulter.
theme for Democrats in 2010: Down in the polls, but better off thanHonduras.
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peals court in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit seeking dam- ages from a private company that worked with the CIA as part of its “extraordinary rendition” pro- gram. The court ruled Wednesday
that the government’s decision to invoke the “state secrets” privi- lege means that the case cannot go forward. Five foreign plaintiffs who
were allegedly transported by the CIA to countries such as Egypt and Morocco for interrogation had sued Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary, which provid- ed flight planning and logistical support services. The five men said that they were tortured by foreign intelligence services working with the CIA and that Jeppesen was a critical player in the agency’s rendition program. After the suit was filed in 2007,
the Bush administration invoked the state secrets privilege. Then- CIA Director Michael V. Hayden told a U.S. District Court in a declaration that “the information covered by this privilege asser- tion reasonably couldbeexpected to cause serious — and in some instances exceptionally grave — damage to thenational security of the United States and, therefore, the information should be ex- cluded from any use in this case.” AttorneyGeneral Eric H.Hold-
er Jr. reviewed and endorsed the Bush administration’s decision to seek the lawsuit’s dismissalonthe grounds that the suit would di- vulge state secrets. AU.S. District Court judge first dismissed the lawsuit. That deci- sion was overturned by a unani- mous panel of three appellate judges, who said the privilege could be applied only to selective pieces of evidence and not the entire case. OnWednesday, a full panel of 11 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Cir- cuit split 6 to 5 in favor of dismiss- ing the lawsuit. “This case requires us to ad-
dress the difficult balance the state secrets doctrine strikes be- tween fundamental principles of our liberty, including justice, transparency, accountability and national security,” wrote Judge Raymond C. Fisher, adding that the court must “reluctantly con- clude” that the claim of privilege cannot be overcome “if the court is ultimately satisfied that [state] secrets are at stake.” The lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court but acknowl- edged in a statement that the ruling “all but shuts the door on accountability.” “This is a sad day not only for
the torture victims whose at- tempt to seek justice has been extinguished, but for all Ameri- cans who care about the rule of lawandournation’s reputation in the world,” said Ben Wizner, staff attorney with the ACLU, who ar- gued the case before the 9th Circuit. In recent years, the govern-
ment has invoked the state se- crets privilege in a number of cases, including various suits con- cerning the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program. A Justice Department spokes-
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