Republicans Want to Turn Over a New Page

Harper's Magazine ^ | 10.6.2006 | Ken Silverstein

[ConservativeMajority]

"Last May, a source put me in touch with a Democratic operative who provided me with the now-infamous emails that Foley had sent in 2004 to a sixteen-year-old page. He also provided several emails that the page sent to the office of Congressman Rodney Alexander, a Louisiana Republican who had sponsored him when he worked on Capitol Hill. “Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously, This freaked me out,” the page wrote in one email. In the fall of 2005, my source had provided the same material to the St. Petersburg Times—and I presume to The Miami Herald—both which decided against publishing stories."

[Eva]

Wait a minute, I thought that Kirk Fordham was the source for the emails to the Florida papers?

[martinidon]

drip. drip, drip

[Uncle Miltie]

"Last May, a source put me in touch with a Democratic operative who provided me with the now-infamous emails that Foley had sent in 2004 to a sixteen-year-old page"

Which Democratic operative allowed a sexual predator to continue to operate on the Hill?

[roses of sharon]

Uh oh, Harper's, St Petersburg Times, and the Miami Herald' bosses and staff may have to resign!!!

[Just mythoughts]

Oh should we just close our eyes and cover our ears and let these perverted freaks smear US over their well planned and plotted scandal?

[kittymyrib]

If the former page is 21 now, he was almost 19, not 16 in '04. This is a lie that needs correction everywhere the msm spreads it.

[sine_nomine]

The Prowler has good information that makes sense.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10469

I don't think this will really affect votes that much.

[llevrok]

The core of the DIM hypocrisy (your questions asks) -

Which Democratic operative allowed a sexual predator to continue to operate on the Hill?

[RegulatorCountry]

Was Rep. Rodney Alexander a Republican, when he sponsored this "mystery page," or was this from when he was a Democrat?

[Republican Red]

Posted by Republican Red to longtermmemmory
On News/Activism 10/10/2006 12:18:42 PM EDT · 60 of 75


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Democratic Foleygate Source Revealed

Just received this information...

A democratic operative who knew about the Foley scandal designed to alter this year's midterm election was revealed to me this morning.

This much was revealed- "There is very strong speculation that Brian Smoot is one the high ranking democrats who knew of the Foley scandal months before the news broke on September 29, 2006."

Redstate background on Brian Smoot: http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/who_is_brian_smoot

In August of 2004, Rodney Alexander's Chief of Staff, Brian Smoot, and five other staffers abruptly quit because Alexander switched to the GOP. National Journal reported on August 13, 2004, that the Chief of Staff "sharply criticized Alexander for switching parties." The Chief of Staff and five staffers were promptly hired by minority leader Nancy Pelosi.

In November 2005, Alexander is notified by a couple in his district that the couple's son had gotten emails from Mark Foley that were not really kosher.

In October of 2006, we find that Alexander's former Chief of Staff is now running the congressional campaign of Ron Klein in Florida's 22nd Congressional District against Republican Representative Clay Shaw -- a district that shares a major media market with Mark Foley's district

[Gordongekko909]

Them and Harper's, dude. If the Dems want to continue to insist on bringing Hastern down, they're going to take a lot of leftists with them.

[norwaypinesavage]

"A Democratic operative...provided me with the now-infamous emails that Foley had sent in 2004."

I wonder if the "operative was NOC. Best get Fitz on this, at once. We need quick answers.

[albie]

Whether it's good news or bad news on this crapola, it's dead inside 7 days.

[musikman]

Oh, this is rich !!! No wonder Pelosi doesn't want to testify under oath or have Freeh look deeply into this.

This is RICH !

[r9etb]

The source might be protected under "source privelege," but the Democrat operative is not.

[tobyhill]

This is the e-mail kid who's parents said to get Foley to stop all communications and Foley did.

[MizSterious]

Thank you. I was just about to say, "16 my as---terisk."

[Phsstpok]

Oh, this is good.

If there's any way to provide more substance to this it HAS to be forwarded to a wide variety of outlets, ranging from Rush to Brian Ross his own self. I would include Ross (along with other DBM targets) specifically to see if they start to backpedal and try to cover their own behinds.

I think Ross, for one, is at risk legally in the "la cage aux Foley" affair. He's already started to alter reports on the ABC web site about how old certain individuals were when some of these things happened. Luckily some of the blogs following this have done great work documenting the original articles and the unacknowledged alterations.

[Mo1]

So who is the Democratic operative ??