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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 …
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 …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:The Closet — For almost my entire adult life, I've been openly gay.
Washington Post:The Foley Scandal — THE SUDDEN resignation of Rep. Mark Foley …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Did Hastert know last year that Foley was a pervert? Update: Feldman on Foley
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Larry Wheeler / News Press:Congressman resigns — Foley quits as e-mails to boy raise questions
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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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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.
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 …
Mark Halperin / New York Times:
Ace of Base — BILL and Hillary Clinton have been known to cite a quip widely attributed to Einstein: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." George W. Bush and Karl Rove live by an alternative dictum …
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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 …
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Justices to Hear Abortion, Integration Cases — 'Partial-Birth' Procedure and Schools' Race Policies to Dominate Court's Agenda — Abortion and race dominate the Supreme Court's agenda for the term that begins tomorrow, with the Bush administration and its conservative allies urging …
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THE GLENN AND HELEN SHOW: MICHAEL TOTTEN ON BLOG-JOURNALISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST — Michael Totten is an independent blog-journalist who has covered the Middle East with support from his blog readers. He's reported from Libya, Tunisia, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt — and he's now planning another trip.
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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 …
Bob Woodward / Newsweek:
It was Bush's decision. But Rumsfeld drove the dynamic on Iraq. How the SecDef blew it. An exclusive excerpt. — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (left) had concerns about the 'overbearing style' of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (right), according to Woodward's book
Charles S. Johnson / Billings Gazette:
Tester holds 7-point lead on Burns, poll says — HELENA - Democratic challenger Jon Tester is leading Republican U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns by a 47 percent to 40 percent margin, a new Gazette State Poll shows. — Ten percent of the voters are undecided, while 3 percent said they would vote …
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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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Orlando Sentinel:
Florida Republicans angry at Foley's 'hypocrisy' — The congressman was known for crusading against sex predators and Internet porn. — FORT LAUDERDALE — At the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a young Republican congressman from Florida did something that seemed ordinary at the time …
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Mormon with a JFK touch is right on McCain's tail — FOR a glimpse of the top candidates for president in 2008, the best venue last week was a fashionable bar in Washington where the favourites for the Republican and Democratic nominations gathered like show ponies for the launch of a book called The Way to Win.
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