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4:28 AM ET, October 5, 2006

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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
David Corn:
"The List" (of Gay GOP Aides on the Hill); Hubris on Bloggingheads.tv  —  There's a list going around.  Those disseminating it call it "The List."  It's a roster of top-level Republican congressional aides who are gay.  —  On CBS News on Tuesday, correspondent Gloria Borger reported …
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?
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 …
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.
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.
The Raw Story:
Blogger reposts item 'outing' boy in Foley scandal, claimed he's of age  —  The blog Passionate America has revealed the identity and published a photograph of an alleged victim of disgraced Rep. Mark Foley in a post that was pulled and later re-posted with additional information.
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 …
Larry Wheeler / Arizona Republic:
Foley allegedly had shown up drunk at dorm
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CNN:   A statement released by Kirk Fordham, former senior aide to ex …
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:   Aide Says He Reported Foley 3 Years Ago
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 …
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.
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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Lawrence Messina / Associated Press:
W. Va. Lawmaker Embarasssed by Photos  —  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A state senator said he is evaluating whether to continue his bid for a second term after a Charleston television station aired revealing pictures of him last week.  —  "My family has urged me not to withdraw from the election …
Dale Russakoff / Washington Post:
Some Workers Change Collars  —  NLRB Rules Some Nurses Are Supervisors, a Potential Blow to Unions  —  The National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday that nurses with full-time responsibility for assigning fellow hospital workers to particular tasks are supervisors under federal labor law …
Kos Irhabi / The Jawa Report:
YouTube Suspending Anti-Jihad Accounts  —  The YouTube Jihad continues.  Michelle's video account has been suspended.  We just received notice from YouTube that the account for Sout al Kuffar is in also in jeopardy of being suspended:  —  Just so there is no mistake …
 
 
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