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DEVELOPING: NEW CASTLE, Del. -- Police on Friday afternoon came to the home of a 17-year-old high school junior to ask her about direct online communications she has had with Rep. Anthony Weiner. Two officers from the New Castle County Police Department arrived at the girl's home around 4:30 p.m. and asked to speak with the girl's mother about the daughter's contact with Weiner. Another officer appeared at the home a short time later. A FoxNews.com reporter was at the home when the police arrived. The girl, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor, told FoxNews.com, "I'm...

A January 29 Associated Press headline shouts without apparent irony, "Bin Laden Blames U.S. for Global Warming in New Tape." Under the headline is a photo of Osama bin Laden speaking into a microphone. "Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality," bin Laden told the world, at least as translated by Al Jazeera. "All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis." At first glance, the photo -- in combination with a headline about a "tape" -- challenged my belief that bin Laden is long since dead. On...

AUSTIN, Texas – In the last months of his administration, President Lyndon Johnson voiced worry over the Vietnam peace talks and stridently suggested that associates of Richard Nixon were attempting to keep South Vietnam away from the table until after the 1968 election, recordings of telephone conversations released Thursday show. "This is treason," Johnson said, referring to people close to Nixon, during a conversation with Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen.

kenya asks norway not to believe cheating envoy The Xinhua General Overseas News Service AUGUST 27, 1987, THURSDAYThe Xinhua General Overseas News Service AUGUST 27, 1987, THURSDAY LENGTH: 272 words HEADLINE: kenya asks norway not to believe cheating envoyDATELINE: nairobi, august 27; ITEM NO: 0827012 BODY: the kenyan government today disowned a self-appointed "diplomat" named sammy korir who has been appearing on the norwegian television, claiming himself as a spokesman of the kenyan government in norway. a statement issued here by the kenyan foreign ministry today said that "mr. korir is a wanted criminal in kenya to answer fraud charges,...

African Press International, Michelle Obama Tapes: API Says it is in Discussion with Fox News over Release of Tapes. Fox News Cannot Confirm at this Time UPDATES to follow at end of story. UPDATE 1 UPDATE #2 - 1655 EDT Two conversations with Fox News African Press International has released a statement saying they are in discussions over the release of the Michelle Obama phone call audio tapes to FOX News. From Michelle Obama tapes’ imminent release approaching: API in a serious negotiation with FOX NEWS on the best way forward API has an ongoing discussion with FOX NEWS on...

Government Attic. I'm on dialup so I won't be downloading the tapes. But this should interest some here.

For the first time, the government played 911 audiotapes of two people trapped inside the World Trade Center, each screaming into the phone while trying desperately to summon emergency crews to burning offices high above Manhattan. "I'm going to die, aren't I?" cried Melissa Doi, 32, who said she was lying on the floor, trying to find fresh air in a south tower engulfed in smoke and fire. Sixteen stories above her, on the 99th floor, Kevin Cosgrove, 46, cried, "I'm not ready to die!" Both died that day. So did Peter Hanson, his wife, Sue Kim, and their 2-year-old...

President Bush has ordered that critical evidence confiscated by U.S. forces after they liberated Iraq be made public - including 3,000 hours of audiotapes of Saddam Hussein chairing his Revolutionary Command Council before the war and 48,000 boxes of records documenting his regime's military activities. "This stuff ought to be out," Bush told National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley last month, according to the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes. "Put this stuff out," the president reiterated. The president made similar statements during three separate meetings with congressional Republicans and several senior national security officials, the Standard said. Bush's initial order came on...

Leftist Reaction to News About Saddam Tapes Story appears-several sources on the net-saying ABC has obtained copies of audiotapes made by Saddam Hussein-right before War-and will air them on TV. Leftists begin reacting, with barely concealed rage.They have been chanting: "Bush Lied,People Died" since 2003,and there is a strong possibility they may be proved wrong !!!Lefty #1: The source quoted is flawed. Just not as credible as AP, or AFP !Lefty #2 : So WHAT if Saddam admits on tape he has WMDs ? Where are they ? Lefty # 3: Why should we believe Saddam Hussein ? Lefty...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays, then immediately release audio tapes of the proceeding. The court has made same-day releases of audio tapes in some major cases since December 2000, when justices heard Florida ballot recount appeals that determined the outcome of the presidential election. On Wednesday, the same-day release of audio tapes for a case involving abortion rights marked the first time Chief Justice John Roberts allowed the practice. Television cameras are barred from the court and reporters are not allowed to use tape recorders....

The FBI's backlog of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism and espionage investigations grew markedly in the past year, the Justice Department's internal watchdog said Wednesday. The FBI is capturing and reviewing more conversations than ever in languages associated with terrorists, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said in a report. "The FBI's collection of audio material continues to outpace its ability to review and translate all that material," Fine said. His findings were similar in a July 2004 audit, except that he said the FBI now does a better job prioritizing its translation work. Fine released his report at an FBI...

Crap By the Mob For the past three nights, NBC (NY) has been running a series called “Tapped by the Mob” – which, I suppose, will win the network all sorts of prizes and awards for “courageous reporting”. Each segment takes up about a quarter of the available news time,but seems to last longer, as NBC’s Jonathan Deinst-all glittery eyed with excitement-guides viewers through brain-numbing audiotapes of “alleged Gambino Family crime boss Gregory De Palma” ordering Viagra for his friends,offering to install driveways, perform home improvements,and so forth . De Palma sounds,quite frankly, as if he were reading from a...

Sealed transcripts of tape-recorded conversations between Bill and Hillary Clinton's top private detective and his clients will be shared with prosecutors, a federal court ruled on Thursday. Reuters reports that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments from lawyers for notorious Hollywood sleuth Anthony Pellicano, who tried to claim that a November 2002 search of his Sunset Blvd. office office was illegal, and that evidence seized there could not be used to convict him. Pellicano - a self-proclaimed "sin eater" for some of Hollywood's biggest names - worked for Mr. and Mrs. Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign...

"Tapes would be sent from the United States to North Vietnam to broadcast over Radio Hanoi to get U.S. servicemen to stop fighting in Vietnam…" Judicial Watch has performed a public service by posting 50 pages of FBI documents about John Kerry's involvement in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, VVAW. The problem is that the media aren't interested in what they have to say. They show that members of VVAW were close to the Communist Party USA and collaborated with the enemy, communist North Vietnam.

The Justice Department will hold a two-hour briefing for family members who lost relatives on the four planes that were hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, NBC News has learned. The meeting, to be held June 4 in Princeton, N.J., is sure to be emotional for the 100-plus family members who plan to attend. The meeting will be closed to the media. Prosecutors will play audio recordings of phone calls between individuals on the planes and family members or co-workers on the ground — recordings that have never aired anywhere before.

Aug. 18 — DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Arabiya television aired on Monday an audio tape allegedly from an al Qaeda spokesman saying Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Omar were alive and urging Muslims to fight a holy war against U.S. troops in Iraq. Al Arabiya attributed the recording to Afghan-based al Qaeda official Abdel Rahman al-Najdi, who it said was on a U.S. list of wanted al Qaeda members. "I would like to bring the good tidings to Muslims everywhere that Sheikh Osama bin Laden is well, very well and that Mullah Omar is also alive," the voice...

NEW YORK -- Many of the audio and written records of the Fire Department's response to the World Trade Center attacks should never be made public, the mayor's office says. In response to a lawsuit filed by The New York Times, the Bloomberg administration cited several reasons for wanting to keep secret the audiotapes of dispatchers' and firefighters' communications, and a department collection of firefighters' accounts of the attack. City lawyers and administration officials say a federal court in Virginia has barred them from releasing much of the material, citing its value in the case against terror suspect, Zacarias Moussaoui,...