Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell once had an affair with an FBI agent's wife. So, what did the FBI agent do? He tried - and failed - to kill his one-time love, Margo Bennett. What did Bennett do? Nothing - until now: she's releasing a titillating tell-all about Cornwall's seduction.

An unknown source had some fun fooling the FBI.

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Hate crimes are all the rage these days. From HRC's Back Story:

Today the FBI released its 2006 hate crimes statistics… [the Bureau] reported hate crimes incidents rose by 8% in 2006.
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Hate crimes based on sexual orientation totaled 15.5% of incidents reported (1,195 incidents). This is an increase from the 2005 report where hate crimes based on sexual orientation totaled 14.2% of incidents reported (1,017).

51.8% of the attacks were race-based, while 18.9 were religious based, most of which were anti-Jewish.

We've included the gay breakdown after the jump.

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• Exterface astounds once again with Orchid.

• "Harassed" lesbian soldier denies secret tryst with fellow lesbian soldier.

• OMG! Is Britney Spears a meth head?

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The US Department of Justice may be getting too overzealous in their fight against child pornography. New amendments to the Federal Labeling and Record keeping Law, aka Section 2257, will require adult social networking sites such as Manhunt and Gay.com to keep a log of users who post "sexually explicit" snapshots.

Passed in 1988, Section 2257 works to combat child pornographers, but a series of amendments have expanded the law's net, especially on the net. Though regulations are meant to hinder porn peddlers, they can also be expanded to social sties. Private citizens who submit naughty pictures must register and provide a photo id. These logs can then be reviewed by the Attorney General and the FBI, says The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Those of you interested in fighting this invasion of privacy better hurry up - the public has until September 10th to file a complaint. The Task Force provides all the relevant information.

Politicians sure can be sneaky. They'll do everything in their power to further their goals, secure their interests and spread their propaganda, even if it means - gasp - editing.

An intrepid Canada journo, David George-Cosh did a little digging into Wikipedia and found a worrisome link between the Canadian government and homophobic revision:

One user, with an IP address that points to a government office in Ottawa, removed Wikipedia's entire entry on homosexuality several times on July 20, 2005, and replaced it with such sentences as: "Homosexuality is evil," "Homosexuality is wrong according to the Bible" and "Homosexuals need our help and counselling." The IP address responsible for that edit continued to deface the entry on homosexuality a total of 24 times between July, 2005, and July, 2006…

Good to know Canada's civil servants spend their time wisely.

In other shady government moves, the CIA and FBI apparently edited Guantanamo and Iraq war entries. Because any amount of control counts…