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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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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 …
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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 …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Mark Foley Thread - Blurt Out Your Thoughts — Let's open it up on the Mark Foley story. — I'll start with an answer to "Why would the House leadership ever cover this up?" [Did I make it clear that the question is hypothetical, and that we don't yet know what the leadership knew or when they knew it?]
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.
Roll Call:Reynolds Informed Hastert of Allegations Against Foley
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Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Shimkus approached Foley about early e-mails
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The Closet — For almost my entire adult life, I've been openly gay.
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:
The laughing 9/11 bombers — Exclusive film of suicide pilots at Bin Laden's HQ — FILM of the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers reading his "martyrdom" will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden's headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage.
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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
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.
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.
Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Newsflash: Victor Davis Hanson, American Idiot — VDH on Jimmy Carter: … VDH is half right; Desert One really was the Waterloo of the Carter presidency and, had it succeeded, Carter would probably have won the 1980 election and we'd have a different America.
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Telegraph:
Saudis build 550-mile fence to shut out Iraq — Security in Iraq has collapsed so dramatically that Saudi Arabia has ordered the construction of a 550-mile high-tech fence to seal off its troubled northern neighbour. — The huge project to build the barrier, which will be equipped …
Times of London:
Is there blood on his hands? — As Kofi Annan prepares to stand down as UN secretary-general, Adam LeBor investigates the accusations made against the world's chief defender of human rights — THE CASE AGAINST KOFI ANNAN — The bodies were still warm when Lieutenant Ron Rutten found them …
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.
Muslihoon:
The war of ideas and civilizational superiority — October 1st, 2006 at 7:55 am (Personal, Islam, History, Culture, War, War on Terrorism, Arabic, The Rest, The United States, International community, The Muslim World, Islamic propaganda, The West, Islamists) — (Disclaimer: Caution!
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
TOM MAGUIRE has thoughts on torture. He's a bit hard on Andrew Sullivan, but not as hard as Sullivan is being on me — Sullivan has brought out the waterboard of blogging, reprinting emails from readers of his who say they'll never read me again, only Sullivan, from now on.
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