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William J. Broad / New York Times:
U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide — Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
November surprise! NYT plans page-one Iraq WMD splash for tomorrow; Flashback: Operation Merlin — So says the teaser on Drudge. Well, on the bright side, at least they're not making a pretense of being impartial anymore. — Only two possibilities here:
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
So I Guess The FMSO Documents Are Legit — Over the past year or so, I have provided CQ readers with a number of translations from key Iraqi Intelligence Service documents that have been translated by either the FMSO or by Joseph Shahda of the Free Republic website.
Denver Post:
Haggard steps down amid gay affair inquiry — Ted Haggard, one of the most prominent evangelical pastors in the nation, resigned today as president of the National Association of Evangelicals amid allegations that he carried on a three-year sexual relationship with a male prostitute.
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Church Leader Says Haggard Admits To Some Indiscretions — Interim Senior Pastor Says Haggard Admits Indiscretions — Raw Interview — Colorado Springs — A sudden about-face in the scandal facing New Life Church's pastor. — After Pastor Ted Haggard went public Wednesday night denying allegations …
Jeffrey Wolf / KUSA-TV:
Voice expert believes Haggard contacted male escort — and Nicole Vap Executive Producer Investigative — DENVER - A nationally known voice recognition expert says he believes voice mails left for a male escort are from a pastor in Colorado Springs. — Mike Jones, a gay man …
Charlie Brennan / Rocky Mountain News:
Gay escort claims sex tryst with preacher
Gay escort claims sex tryst with preacher
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Democracy Project:
Penn President Poses with "Suicide Bomber" — University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann threw her annual Halloween costume party at her home Tuesday night. Among the guests was Saad Saadi, who came dressed as a suicide bomber, complete with plastic dynamite strapped to his chest and a toy automatic rifle.
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Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
Mideast terror leaders to U.S.: Vote Democrat — Withdrawal from Iraq would embolden jihadists to destroy Israel, America — JERUSALEM - Everybody has an opinion about next Tuesday's midterm congressional election in the U.S. - including senior terrorist leaders interviewed by WND …
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Andrew Bolt / NEWS.com.au:
Backing a bigot — ANDREW Bolt writes: It's the code of the tribe: the worst of us is better than the best of you. We have urgent work to do if we want to save ourselves. — Excuses over. The disgraced mufti of Australia set Muslims a test last month and they failed.
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Md. Democrats Say GOP Plans to Block Voters — A recently distributed guide for Republican poll watchers in Maryland spells out how to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters and urges these volunteers to tell election judges they could face jail time if a challenge is ignored.
Adam Zagorin / Time:
An Abu Ghraib Offender Heads Back to Iraq — Exclusive: A military dog handler convicted for his role in the prisoner abuse scandal has been ordered back to help train the country's police — As if the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal weren't bad enough for America's image in the Middle East …
Ben Smith / The Daily Politics:
Exclusive: NRCC's Foley "Damage Control" — Two senior aides to National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds participated in "damage control" conference calls concerning correspondence between Congressman Mark Foley and a former congressional page — two days before the scandal became public …
James Glanz / New York Times:
Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office — Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Blogwars: Me vs. Ace on Kerrygate — You are dead to me. — Just kidding. I thought Ace's response deserved a link after I accused him of being in "nutroots territory" last night, which was in turn a response to him implying that I was "crazy" for thinking Kerry's remark might have been aimed at Bush and not the military.
Michael Rubinkam / Associated Press:
Rep. Paying Ex-Mistress About $500K — ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Republican congressman accused of abusing his ex-mistress agreed to pay her about $500,000 in a settlement last year that contained a powerful incentive for her to keep quiet until after Election Day, a person familiar with the terms of the deal told The Associated Press.
Richard Black / BBC:
'Only 50 years left' for sea fish — Environment correspondent, BBC News website — There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study. — Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries …