Top Items:
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.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Shakespeare's Sister, CNN Political Ticker, PoliBlog, The Reaction, The Carpetbagger Report, Norwegianity, The Democratic Daily, Talking Points Memo, Pam's House Blend, Don Surber, Liberty and Justice, AMERICAblog, The News Blog, Firedoglake, Discourse.net, Decision '08, Daily Kos and The Agonist
RELATED ITEMS:
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 …
Discussion:
TalkLeft, The Strata-Sphere, Brilliant at Breakfast, The American Street, Donklephant, Talking Points Memo and AMERICAblog
John Bresnahan / Roll Call:
Hastert, Top Aides Knew of Foley Allegations — Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and at least three of his aides were told of allegations that then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) had improper e-mail contacts with a former House page months before the incident became public and Foley resigned from Congress …
Discussion:
TPMmuckraker
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 …
Washington Post:The Foley Scandal — THE SUDDEN resignation of Rep. Mark Foley …
Discussion:
Daily Kos
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:The Closet — For almost my entire adult life, I've been openly gay.
Discussion:
Pam's House Blend
Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Shimkus approached Foley about early e-mails
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo
Larry Wheeler / News Press:Congressman resigns — Foley quits as e-mails to boy raise questions
Discussion:
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
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.
Discussion:
JustOneMinute, The Mahablog, Riehl World View, Brilliant at Breakfast and The Political Pit Bull
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism — On May 22, 2006, 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 …
Discussion:
Liberty and Justice, The American Street, Booman Tribune, AMERICAblog, The Heretik and Norwegianity
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 …
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
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 …
Richard A. Clarke / New York Times:
Blinded by Hindsight — FIVE years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, three years after the 9/11 commission report, and just weeks before a national election, the issues of what happened before those attacks have resurfaced. Suddenly, we are again witnessing heated disputes …
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!
Michelle Malkin:
A personal aside — Every weekday morning, after I get my kids dressed and fed and off and running for the day, I sit down in my home office to blog, write columns, manage Hot Air, and juggle duties as a Fox News contributor. I can't wait to see what's happening in the world …
Discussion:
Vox Popoli
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
