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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Longtime Republican was source of e-mails — The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley's (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page says the documents came to him from a House GOP aide. — That aide has been a registered Republican since becoming eligible to vote …
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Hastert Was Warned About Foley Two Years Ago, GOP Aide Says — House Speaker's Spokesman Disputes Kirk Fordham's Claim That He Previously Alerted Hastert's Office About Foley's Behavior — Despite claims by senior congressional aide Kirk Fordham that he notified House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office …
Larry Wheeler / Arizona Republic:
Foley allegedly had shown up drunk at dorm — WASHINGTON - A senior House Republican has asked the House clerk to look into allegations that then-Rep. Mark Foley was turned away from the congressional page dorm on Capitol Hill after arriving there intoxicated one night.
Washington Post:
Ex-Aide To Foley Cites '03 Warnings — Former Staffer Says He Alerted Hastert's Office — A longtime chief of staff to disgraced former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) approached House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's office three years ago, repeatedly imploring senior Republicans …
The Prowler / American Spectator:
They'll Regret It — "We're getting into very dangerous territory, and I've warned my colleagues to be careful." That's what a Democrat leadership aide was saying on Wednesday, as word circulated about David Corn's blog posting that revealed that a list of gay Republicans congressional staffers was circulating through emails.
New York Times:
Early Warning on Foley Cited by Former Aide — A former Congressional aide said Wednesday that Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's office knew about reports of "inappropriate behavior" by Representative Mark Foley far earlier than Mr. Hastert's office has acknowledged.
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Ray Long / Chicago Tribune:
Lawmaker defends page program — SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois lawmaker who oversees the Congressional page program said Wednesday that teens who participate are "safer in our program than in a lot of homes." — Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) defended his actions as chairman of the page board …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
The Open And Closeted Lives of a Gay Congressman — Mark Foley had secrets. — First, there was whispering about the Republican congressman's sexual orientation, beginning in 1994 during his first House campaign. He was almost outed two years later when he voted against gay marriage.
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RADAR:
THE BOGUS BLOG BEHIND FOLEY'S FALL — ABCNews.com brought Mark Foley's boy-chasing to national attention, but it wasn't the first website to flog the story. That dubious honor belongs to StopSexPredators, a pseudo-vigilante blog filled with plagiarized, hastily-assembled posts …
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Drudge Report:
ABC ONLINE GLITCH LEADS TO IDENTITY OF FOLEY ACCUSER FEATURED IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD — A posting on ABCNEWS.COM of an unredacted instant message sessions between Rep. Mark Foley and a former congressional page has exposed the identity of the now 21 year-old accuser.
Michelle Malkin:
The conservative outing mob — For the past two days, a conservative blogger has ginned up publicity for his work outing a 21-year-old young man—a former congressional page and current deputy campaign manager for a heartland Republican congressman—who received sexually explicit instant messages …
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Dan Sewell / Associated Press:
Court temporarily OKs domestic spying — CINCINNATI - The Bush administration can continue its warrantless surveillance program while it appeals a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. — The president has said the program is needed …
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This Is London:
MUSLIM PC WINS RIGHT NOT TO PROTECT ISRAELI EMBASSY — A Muslim police officer has been excused from guarding London's Israeli Embassy after he objected to the duty on 'moral grounds'. — PC Alexander Omar Basha - a member of the Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Joe Tortureman — I'd read about this earlier today on Joementum, but I knew that CTBlogger was going to put up a YouTube and I really wanted to see it with my own eyes before I wrote anything about it. Yep, there's no mistake. Here is Joe Tortureman on Imus, joking about...well, what else, torture:
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Works and Days:
The War and Its Critics — Pseudo-footnotes — Most genres don't require footnotes—the memoir, the essay, the journalistic dispatch. I've written histories that had too many footnotes—The Other Greeks had citations to ancient sources in the text, explanations with asterisks at the bottom of the page …
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Military Hones a New Strategy on Insurgency — The United States Army and Marines are finishing work on a new counterinsurgency doctrine that draws on the hard-learned lessons from Iraq and makes the welfare and protection of civilians a bedrock element of military strategy.
Ynetnews:
Khameini: Don't masturbate during Ramadan — Iran's supreme leader answers questions on masturbation and other topics on his website — Deliberate masturbation during the month of Ramadan renders a fast invalid, Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khameini has ruled.
Brad / The BRAD BLOG:
Now Associated Press Labels Foley as a Democrat! — First on Fox, Then on AP! Although At Lleast AP Had the Decency to Issue a Correction! — ON UPDATE: Hastert Also Labelled a DEM by AP! — It looks like AP picked up on Fox's "error" yesterday in labelling Mark Foley as a Democrat!
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