From Yesterday’s NYTimes: On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. […]

Last night in my Open Letter to John Boehner, I made this statement: I am not asking as a blogger. I am asking as a constituent. Considering the pure number of these acts we here reported in our own area on a daily basis (and I do only live 10 miles from you so we […]

Last night I reported about the discrepencies in the story between Hastert and Boehner. Hastert said he was never told of Foley and Boehner said he told Hastert. Now it looks like the story has taken another turn (big ht to Josh Marshall) From the Washington Post The resignation rocked the Capitol, and especially Foley’s GOP […]

As my regular readers know, last month I removed the old CAPTCHA system on commenting (where you have to enter the graphical letters and numbers to post). At that time I activated the Akismet plugin that comes bundled with WordPress to help combat spam. Since that time, Akismet has caught 7,000 spam messages (as of […]

Not surprisingly, the right side of the blogosphere seems somewhat quiet on the Foley news. There is however a couple of items I do want to bring up. First is this post in Redstate’s comment section: I just posted a blog about this as you were writing your post, apparently, having just seen the Drudge […]

Via Roll Call (via  Hunter): Chairman of the House Page Board, Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) interviewed Foley last year about some of the contacts with the page. The House clerk who is also a member of the Board was also present. Speaker Hastert’s office was informed of the interview, but according to leadership sources who […]

According to this report, you were made aware of Foley’s actions and it is apparent you did nothing. Why did you not take action? As majority leader, you should have addressed this situation. Perhaps a better situation for your party would have been vigilance and removed Foley from all positions of power pending an investigation. […]

In the 90’s, the Republican leadership in Congress decided to engage in a witchhunt against Bill Clinton that last for months and cost taxpayers millions. The witchhunt was about sexual relations between two consenting adults. The Republicans now try to blame Clinton for 9/11 and say it was because he was distracted by the Lewinsky […]

So much of this week was focused on the leaked NIE and the Democrats considered it a major trump on the Republicans in the home stretch of the election season. With all of that, who could have ever imagined the tri-fecta that was given to the Democrats today? Mark Foley has been the hot story […]

Like I said earlier, there is more to this than meets the eye. Now ABC has confirmed my suspicions.