memeorandum: Legislating Violations of the Constitution (Erwin Chemerinsky/Washington Post)

11:10 PM ET, September 30, 2006

RELATED ITEMS:

Reynolds Informed Hastert of Allegations Against Foley — National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds (N.Y.) issued a statement Saturday in which he said that he had informed Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) of allegations of improper contacts between then-Rep. Mark Foley …

Discussion: MyDD, AMERICAblog, The Carpetbagger Report, Daily Kos, Unclaimed Territory, New York Times and PoliBlog

New York Times:

Along With Victories, G.O.P. Takes a Few Blows — Just hours before Congress closed down for the midterm elections on Saturday, Republican leaders threw together a ceremony to celebrate the passage of what they hoped to promote as their singular legislative accomplishment — a bill to bring terrorism suspects to trial.

Discussion: The Next Hurrah

CNN:

Colleague: We told Foley to stop contacting teen — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Rep. Mark Foley "was not honest about his conduct," according to the chairman of the House Page Board, referring to e-mail exchanges between the former congressman and a teenage male page.

Discussion: citizensforethics.org, Right Wing Nut House, PoliBlog, Macsmind, JustOneMinute, Captain's Quarters, Unfogged and Gateway Pundit

Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Hastert Knew While Foley Flew

Discussion: AMERICAblog and Mia Culpa

Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
GOP House leaders speak out against Internet predators

Discussion: Firedoglake, Obsidian Wings, Suburban Guerrilla, The Carpetbagger Report, Political Animal, Decision '08 and The Poor Man Institute

Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Foley e-mails 1st reported in fall '05

Discussion: MyDD and Ezra Klein

Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:

A Portrait of Bush as a Victim of His Own Certitude — In Bob Woodward's highly anticipated new book, "State of Denial," President Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and intellectually incurious leader, presiding over a grossly dysfunctional war cabinet and given …

Discussion: Washington Post, Brad DeLong's Semi …, The Democratic Daily, Ezra Klein, NO QUARTER, Matthew Yglesias, The Moderate Voice, The Enigmatic Paradox, Liberty Street, Mia Culpa and Booman Tribune

RELATED ITEMS:

Tim Golden / New York Times:

Memo Fueled Deep Rift in Administration on Detainees — In June 2005, two senior national security officials in the Bush administration came together to propose a sweeping new approach to the growing problems the United States was facing with the detention, interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.

Discussion: Andrew Sullivan, TalkLeft and Amygdala

Editor and Publisher:

Woodward Excerpt Appears in 'Post' With New 9/11 Bombshell — NEW YORK After being scooped by The New York Times, '60 Minutes' and New York's Daily News, The Washington Post comes out with its first excerpt/digest of Bob Woodward's upcoming blockbuster, "State of Denial," …

Discussion: AMERICAblog, The Heretik, The Political Pit Bull, Washington Post, TalkLeft and Eschaton

Bob Woodward / Washington Post:

STATE OF DENIAL — In May, President Bush spoke in Chicago and gave a characteristically upbeat forecast: "Years from now, people will look back on the formation of a unity government in Iraq as a decisive moment in the story of liberty, a moment when freedom gained a firm foothold …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Donklephant, american footprints, Brilliant at Breakfast, Norwegianity, War and Piece, The Political Pit Bull, Amygdala, Don Surber, Macsmind and Decision '08

Washington Post:

Falling on His Sword — Colin Powell's most significant moment turned out to be his lowest — ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2004, eight days after the president he served was elected to a second term, Secretary of State Colin Powell received a telephone call from the White House at his State Department office.

Discussion: Mia Culpa and Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006

Associated Press:

U.K. paper says has unseen 9/11 video — LONDON - A previously unseen video made by Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been obtained by Britain's The Sunday Times, the newspaper reported Saturday. — In editions available late Saturday …

RELATED ITEMS:

Times of London:

Focus: Chilling message of the 9/11 pilots — A video shows two of the world's most infamous terrorists joking and laughing while filming their 'death wills' at Osama Bin Laden's lair in Afghanistan. The journalist and author Yosri Fouda explains the terrible significance of the new find

Discussion: Never Yet Melted

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Times of London obtains Mohammed Atta martyrdom video …

Discussion: Wizbang, RightWinged.com and Blue Crab Boulevard

Erwin Chemerinsky / Washington Post:

Legislating Violations of the Constitution — With little public attention or even notice, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that undermines enforcement of the First Amendment's separation of church and state. The Public Expression of Religion Act - H.R. 2679 …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Preemptive Karma, NH-02 Progressive, Donklephant, Balloon Juice and TPMCafe blogs

Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:

Baghdad under curfew. — The situation in Baghdad calmed down soon after we made the previous post. — Saturday has been so quiet so far, never a single explosion happened as far as I know and there was hardly any sound of gunfire in or around our district in Baghdad.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, The Reaction and Blue Crab Boulevard

RELATED ITEMS:

Ammar Karim / Agence France Presse:
Baghdad under curfew as suicide bombers prowl

Discussion: Healing Iraq and MSNBC

BBC:

Pakistan 'role in Mumbai attacks' — Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say. — The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said.

Discussion: Secular Blasphemy

RELATED ITEMS:

Hartford Courant:

Lieberman Won't Forget — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is willing to forgive but not forget Chris Dodd and others who abandoned him after he lost the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont and became a petitioning candidate. — In an online interview this week with PajamasMedia …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, LamontBlog and nhregister.com

Katie Zezima / New York Times:

When Soldiers Go to War, Flat Daddies Hold Their Place at Home — HERMON, Me. — It was the first day of school, and distance not withstanding, 9-year-old Baylee Smith wanted to take a picture with her father, Mark, who is stationed with a National Guard unit in Afghanistan.

Discussion: Amygdala and Blue Crab Boulevard