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The National Action Network’s annual National Convention kicked off this morning at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel on the heels of a report by The Smoking Gun on Rev. Al Sharpton’s alleged role as an FBI informant. The New York Post and Daily News both responded with front page headlines yesterday that called Mr. Sharpton, the president and founder of the civil rights organization, a “snitch” and a “rat.” For some of the attending civil rights activists, many of whom had traveled from across the country for the week-long convention, the treatment was another reminder of the uphill...

Former NYPD detective Bo Dietl told Sean Hannity Al Sharpton’s contention that he did not know he was an FBI informant in the 1980s is “a lot of baloney.” Sharpton fiercely maintained in a press conference earlier today that he was not a “rat” following revelations Sharpton attempted to buy cocaine from an undercover FBI agent. Dietl, speaking Tuesday evening on Fox News, revealed the NYPD had a special nickname for Sharpton after the current MSNBC host became an informant: BO DIETL: There was a lot of involvement with the music industry at that time that Al was involved in....

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If Team Davis is running their early campaign against Arnold Schwarzenegger by attacking Pete Wilson, Friday marked the beginning of recall proponents' campaign against Cruz Bustamante. Political Pulse has learned that Bustamante is preparing for a Capitol press conference next week in which he will lay out his plan for fixing the state's budget. "He's going to have big ideas," says Bustamante campaign consulant Richie Ross. "It will start Tuesday morning. He will unveil what I think will be the most detailed propsal to address the whole defecit." Sources in the Bustamante camp later said the press conference may be...