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11:30 PM ET, September 30, 2006

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New York Times:
G.O.P. Leaders Knew in Late '05 of E-Mail  —  Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret and allowed Mr. Foley to remain head of a Congressional caucus on children's issues, Republican lawmakers said Saturday.
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Roll Call:
Reynolds Informed Hastert of Allegations Against Foley  —  National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds (N.Y.) issued a statement Saturday in which he said that he had informed Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) of allegations of improper contacts between then-Rep. Mark Foley …
Washington Post:
GOP Leader Rebuts Hastert on Foley  —  Reynolds: Speaker Knew of E-Mails in Spring  —  House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House member said yesterday …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Hastert Knew While Foley Flew  —  Well, well, well.  It appears the Republicans actually can make the Foley controversy worse.  As if it wasn't bad enough that John Boehner knew about Foley's track record of sexual harassment of his underage pages, now it turns out that Speaker Denny Hastert lied …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Mia Culpa
New York Times:
Along With Victories, G.O.P. Takes a Few Blows  —  Just hours before Congress closed down for the midterm elections on Saturday, Republican leaders threw together a ceremony to celebrate the passage of what they hoped to promote as their singular legislative accomplishment — a bill to bring terrorism suspects to trial.
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Shimkus approached Foley about early e-mails
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Foley e-mails 1st reported in fall '05
Discussion: MyDD and Ezra Klein
Tim Golden / New York Times:
Memo Fueled Deep Rift in Administration on Detainees  —  In June 2005, two senior national security officials in the Bush administration came together to propose a sweeping new approach to the growing problems the United States was facing with the detention, interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan, TalkLeft and Amygdala
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Editor and Publisher:
Woodward Excerpt Appears in 'Post' With New 9/11 Bombshell  —  NEW YORK After being scooped by The New York Times, '60 Minutes' and New York's Daily News, The Washington Post comes out with its first excerpt/digest of Bob Woodward's upcoming blockbuster, "State of Denial," …
Washington Post:
Falling on His Sword  —  Colin Powell's most significant moment turned out to be his lowest  —  ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2004, eight days after the president he served was elected to a second term, Secretary of State Colin Powell received a telephone call from the White House at his State Department office.
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
STATE OF DENIAL  —  In May, President Bush spoke in Chicago and gave a characteristically upbeat forecast: "Years from now, people will look back on the formation of a unity government in Iraq as a decisive moment in the story of liberty, a moment when freedom gained a firm foothold …
Times of London:
Focus: Chilling message of the 9/11 pilots  —  A video shows two of the world's most infamous terrorists joking and laughing while filming their 'death wills' at Osama Bin Laden's lair in Afghanistan.  The journalist and author Yosri Fouda explains the terrible significance of the new find
Discussion: Never Yet Melted
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Associated Press:   U.K. paper says has unseen 9/11 video
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Times of London obtains Mohammed Atta martyrdom video …
Erwin Chemerinsky / Washington Post:
Legislating Violations of the Constitution  —  With little public attention or even notice, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that undermines enforcement of the First Amendment's separation of church and state.  The Public Expression of Religion Act - H.R. 2679 …
Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Baghdad under curfew.  —  The situation in Baghdad calmed down soon after we made the previous post.  —  Saturday has been so quiet so far, never a single explosion happened as far as I know and there was hardly any sound of gunfire in or around our district in Baghdad.
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BBC:
Pakistan 'role in Mumbai attacks'  —  Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say.  —  The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said.
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
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Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Won't Forget  —  Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is willing to forgive but not forget Chris Dodd and others who abandoned him after he lost the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont and became a petitioning candidate.  —  In an online interview this week with PajamasMedia …
Katie Zezima / New York Times:
When Soldiers Go to War, Flat Daddies Hold Their Place at Home  —  HERMON, Me.  — It was the first day of school, and distance not withstanding, 9-year-old Baylee Smith wanted to take a picture with her father, Mark, who is stationed with a National Guard unit in Afghanistan.
Discussion: Amygdala and Blue Crab Boulevard
 
 
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(URGENT) Foley CAN Be Removed From The Ballot
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Guardian:
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Teacher in Hiding After Attack on Islam Stirs Threats
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
With Senate Vote, Congress Passes Border Fence Bill