memeorandum: Now Associated Press Labels Foley as a Democrat! (Brad/The BRAD BLOG)

6:55 AM ET, October 5, 2006

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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 …

Discussion: US News, Associated Press, Shakespeare's Sister, MyDD, TPMmuckraker, NewsHog, The Blue State, PoliBlog, Sunlight Foundation, Daily Kos, Comments From Left Field, Andrew Sullivan and AMERICAblog

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!

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Blue State and The Corner

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.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Palm Beach Post, CBS News, Petrelis Files, Hotline On Call and ABCNEWS

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.

Discussion: Associated Press

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 …

Discussion: Discourse.net and Daniel W. Drezner

The Prowler / American Spectator:
They'll Regret It — "We're getting into very dangerous territory …

Discussion: Hot Air and The Strata-Sphere

The Blotter:
Top GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal

CNN: A statement released by Kirk Fordham, former senior aide to ex …

Associated Press:
Republican aide resigns, speaks about Foley matter

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Andrew Sullivan

Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Foley Scandal: What Will Tomorrow Bring?

Discussion: Marc Cooper and AMERICAblog

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 …

Discussion: Wizbang, Ace of Spades HQ, Riehl World View, PoliPundit.com, The Strata-Sphere and Little Green Footballs

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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.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Townhall.com Blog's …, The Political Pit Bull, The Strata-Sphere, NewsBusters.org, Ms Underestimated, Euphoric Reality, Wizbang and Wonkette

Michelle Malkin:
The conservative outing mob

Discussion: Hot Air, Orcinus, The World Wide Rant, The Caucus, The Jawa Report, Capitol confidential, Alabama Liberation Front and TVNewser

Fox News: HOUSE GOP LEADERS ASK FOR PROBE INTO ALLEGED FOLEY DORM VISIT

The Raw Story:
Blogger reposts item 'outing' boy in Foley scandal, claimed he's of age

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, Jesus' General and Oliver Willis

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 …

Discussion: Power Line, Townhall.com Blog's …, Biased BBC and Blue Crab Boulevard

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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:

Discussion: Joementum and Ned Lamont for Senate

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Ctblogger / ConnecticutBLOG:
Joe and Imus have a laugh over torture

Discussion: Sirotablog, The Huffington Post, Joementum and MyDD

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.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, MyDD, democracyarsenal.org, Think Progress, Hullabaloo, Outside The Beltway, The Heretik, The Agonist, The Blue State, NewsHog, DownWithTyranny!, ConnecticutBLOG and Norwegianity

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.

Discussion: Political Animal, The RBC and The Huffington Post

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?