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6:25 AM ET, October 5, 2006

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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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ABCNEWS:
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.
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
The Blotter:
Top GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal  —  Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report:  —  ABC News' Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper reports that Kirk Fordham has resigned.  —  The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham …
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 …
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.
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 …
The Prowler / American Spectator:
They'll Regret It  —  "We're getting into very dangerous territory …
Discussion: Hot Air
CNN:   A statement released by Kirk Fordham, former senior aide to ex …
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:   Aide Says He Reported Foley 3 Years Ago
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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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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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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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Powell: Staying course in Iraq isn't enough  —  The United States and allies can not resolve the current sectarian violence in Iraq, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said today during a lecture in Minneapolis.  —  "Only the Iraqi people can resolve this," Powell said.
Gay Patriot:
More Foley Fallout: The Gay GOP Witchhunt Begins  —  **UPDATE BELOW** Welcome readers from Instapundit, The Corner and Mary Katharine Ham!  —  From liberal blogger David Corn (of The Nation and "outing Valerie Plame" fame) comes this disturbing development in the Foley saga. … Full citizen?
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.
 
 
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