memeorandum: British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran (Ellen Knickmeyer/Washington Post)

12:50 PM ET, October 5, 2006

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Reynolds deflects questions about aide's role

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Lawmaker's Intentions Appear Clear In Exchanges

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Washington Post:
Ex-Aide To Foley Cites '03 Warnings

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Daily Oklahoman:
Istook aide may be victim in page scandal

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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Mysterious blog scooped media on Foley messages

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New York Times:
Early Warning on Foley Cited by Former Aide

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Chicago Tribune:

Hastert dodges Foley heat, denies report of repeated warnings — WASHINGTON — A defiant House Speaker Dennis Hastert fought Wednesday to hold on to his leadership post while fractures appeared among his lieutenants and a former senior aide to Mark Foley said he repeatedly had warned Hastert's top aide …

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Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
Gingrich on page scandal: Democrats have done far worse

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Bill Sammon / Examiner:
Cheney: GOP 'will retain control'

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Opinion Journal:
Getting Beyond Foley

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Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Defiant Shimkus says he'll keep post

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Kos Irhabi / The Jawa Report:
What Would it Take? — My irritation with the current GOP leadership …

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Eliana Johnson / New York Sun:

At Columbia, Students Attack Minuteman Founder — Students stormed the stage at Columbia University's Roone auditorium yesterday, knocking over chairs and tables and attacking Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the border between America and Mexico.

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Michelle Malkin:

Mob rule at Columbia University — Minutemen Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist spoke at Columbia University tonight. He tried to speak, that is. During his remarks, a mob of students stormed the stage and sabotaged the event. Every Columbia U. alum should be assailing the administration.

Discussion: RightWinged.com, Sister Toldjah and Sensible Mom

The Big Trunk / Power Line:

THE ZOO IN MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS — Last night the Columbia University College Republicans hosted what was to be a speech by Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project. Within moments of Gilchrist taking the podium, however, the event was disrupted by left-wing students mounting a coordinated attack on the stage.

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Don Michak / Journal Inquirer:

Lamont writes another check as Lieberman aides surprised on D.C. fundraiser by Bush buddies — Greenwich Democrat Ned Lamont on Monday invested $500,000 more in his campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, bringing the cable company executive's total contribution since last winter to $6.75 million.

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Rasmussen Reports:

Connecticut Senate: Lieberman Lead Reaches Double Digits — Lieberman (I) 50% Lamont (D) 40% — Senator Joseph Lieberman (I) has increased his margin over Democrat Ned Lamont by eight points. He now leads the antiwar candidate 50% to 40% (see crosstabs).

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Judd / Think Progress:

Pajamas Media, Instapundit Facilitate Outing Of Foley Victim — An obscure right-wing blogger, Wild Bill, has outed one of Mark Foley's victims, a former Congressional page. It is a despicable act. Wild Bill however, gets almost no traffic, so the damage done to the victim's life could have been minimal.

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David Rennie / Telegraph:

Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union — Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. — As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers …

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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:

Voters Say Scandals Will Affect Votes — Voters Polled by AP Say Scandals Will Affect Whom They Choose in Midterm Elections — Congressional Republicans, already struggling against negative public perceptions of Congress, now face voters who say new scandals will significantly influence their vote in November.

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New York Times:

A Complex and Hidden Life Behind Foley's Public Persona — Mark Foley, until last week a fixture on this town's lofty social circuit, once recounted a party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's fabled estate. — "Miss Germany was my date," he told a writer at Washingtonian magazine for an article about "How to Date a Congressman."

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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:

British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran — Troops in Southeast Iraq Test U.S. Claim of Aid for Militias — ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER — Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled …

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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:

Waterboarding Historically Controversial — In 1947, the U.S. Called It a War Crime; in 1968, It Reportedly Caused an Investigation — Key senators say Congress has outlawed one of the most notorious detainee interrogation techniques — "waterboarding," in which a prisoner feels near drowning.

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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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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:

Patterico's Exclusive Interview with a Man Who Has Spoken to the Terrorists at Guantánamo (Part Four: The Treatment of the Detainees) — [This is Part Four of my exclusive interview with "Stashiu," an Army nurse who worked at Guantánamo, and who spoke on a regular basis …

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Ali Eteraz / Eteraz:

Stand Against Women Stoned to Death You Apathetic Monsters — This is a call for action to do our small part in coming to the assistance of the women in Iran who have been sentenced to death by stoning. — 1. Read the background and an explanation of the punishment for stoning to death in Islamic Law.

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Abby Goodnough / New York Times:

Foley Was Sexually Abused as a Youth, His Lawyer Says — In another day of revelations about former Representative Mark Foley, his lawyer said Tuesday that as a teenager, Mr. Foley had been molested by a clergyman and had "kept the shame to himself" until now.

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Lou Cabron / 10 Zen Monkeys:

5 Nastiest Campaign Ads So Far — Will Republicans or Democrats control the Senate? It all hangs on five tight Senate races — which means negative ads, and lots of them. Mis-leading, meaningful, desperate, or despicable — they're on your TV, messing with your mind.

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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:

The Illinois Democrat may be more serious about '08 than you think — Ask Washington insiders about Sen. Barack Obama's presidential hopes, and you'll get a pat response: great idea, a cycle or three from now—or maybe this time as veep. But they need to get out more.

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