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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 …
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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 …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Did Hastert know last year that Foley was a pervert? — I hate having to defend Hastert, partly because he's a jackass and partly because it's bad form to defend anyone in any way associated with a child molestation scandal, no matter how much the facts are in their favor.
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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.
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The Next Hurrah
Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Shimkus approached Foley about early e-mails — WASHINGTON Last year, the House clerk grabbed Rep. John Shimkus off the floor during a vote and said they needed to talk. — It wasn't unusual for the clerk at that time, Jeff Trandahl, to catch Shimkus, in the hallway or on the House floor …
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Talking Points Memo
Larry Wheeler / News Press:Congressman resigns — Foley quits as e-mails to boy raise questions
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The Daily Background
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
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Never Yet Melted
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Times of London obtains Mohammed Atta martyrdom video; Flashback: "Nineteen Martyrs" — I've always hoped we wouldn't have to suffer an Atta video. I can stand videos of any of the other 18 — they're all basically fungible — but to be taunted from the grave by the hijacker everyone recognizes is intolerable.
Washington Post:
Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice — On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
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.
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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.
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 …
Dean Barnett / Townhall.com:
FAQ - Torture! — 1) Let's get right to it. Do you support torture? — Let me say what I do support: When it comes to high value targets in the war on terror, wannabe evil-doers who possess or might possess important information, I support any measures necessary to extract that information.
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