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Edwards Aide: I Gave FBI Copy of Sex Tape
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 5, 2010

Posted on 02/05/2010 5:13:20 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

(AP) A former aide to John Edwards says in court documents that a copy of a sex tape featuring his former boss has been sent to the FBI.

Andrew Young said Friday he has the original copy of the tape showing Edwards in a sexual encounter in a safe deposit box in Atlanta. He said a copy of the tape was sent to his Washington attorney, who turned it over to federal investigators.

Young has said the tape shows Edwards and a woman he believes to be the two-time presidential candidate's mistress, Rielle Hunter. Federal investigators have been looking into the money that exchanged hands during Edwards' second White House campaign. He has denied breaking campaign finance laws.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: edwards; fbi; hushmoney; scandals
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1 posted on 02/05/2010 5:13:20 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Rut Roh


2 posted on 02/05/2010 5:15:34 PM PST by bt579 (America elected a reader when it needs a leader. Clean the House in 2010, Right the Wrong in 2012.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The biggest scandal is not Edwards’ affair, but MSM’s refusal to cover it while it was running one Bristol Palin front-page story after another. The NY Times ran three front-page Bristol stories in one addition.
3 posted on 02/05/2010 5:16:19 PM PST by bwc2221
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Edwards is scum, and it looks like this “aide” matches his former hero’s values perfectly. I can’t imagine the thought process that goes into making money off this sort of tape.


4 posted on 02/05/2010 5:17:16 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: bt579
"They contended that the woman in the video was pregnant, but Hunter had written in an affidavit that the tape was made in September 2006, some 17 months before her child with Edwards was born."

Serious Rut Roh....

5 posted on 02/05/2010 5:17:38 PM PST by BossLady (POLITICS - Showbiz for Ugly People)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

o o

Looks like My-Lil-Pony got rode.....

I hope his license ti practice law is still good, he’s gonna need a job after this and his divorce.


6 posted on 02/05/2010 5:19:03 PM PST by Danae (Don't think the Constitution matters? Try living in a country without one.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“...the tape showing Edwards in a sexual encounter in a safe deposit box in Atlanta.”

&&&&&s

That should be on the front cover of News of the World. Has anyone ever recorded sex in a safe deposit box before? Must have been a very large box.


7 posted on 02/05/2010 5:19:18 PM PST by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Can you imagine what they’ll see? I bet they will see him combing his hair constantly while he is giving her the hot beef injection. And then right after the grand finale? Combing his hair again. What about the post-coital snuggle? Nope, not gonna happen because he’s too busy combing his hair again!


8 posted on 02/05/2010 5:19:53 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Pollster1
Young said the TAPE was just lying around in a house that was for sale!! He took it so no one else had it!!

The MAIN STREAM MEDIA..joke of ALL jokes...have NOT COVERED THIS STORY AT ALL!!

9 posted on 02/05/2010 5:19:57 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I hear Al Sharpton appears in a thong. Pray it isn't so. ;-)
10 posted on 02/05/2010 5:19:58 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What is it about the Carolinas that produces the likes of John and Elizabeth Edwards, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, et al...??

Just sayin’...


11 posted on 02/05/2010 5:23:24 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"In or about December 2006, the decision was made that the Video should be destroyed," she wrote. She said she pulled out the tape from the cassette and stored it in a box with personal belongings.

Hmmm. Doesn't sound like she wanted it "destroyed", now, does it? If she did, she would have thrown it out or burned it.

She's a videographer, so she knew the tape could be reused. Maybe for blackmail? She could tell the Silky Pony she "destroyed" the cassette, and be telling the truth, but not the whole truth.

All of the miserable people in this affair certainly deserved each other.

Oh, and I am sure the folks at the FBI made no copies of this hot property. We'll know, if the Silky Pony suffers the same fate as Mrs. Clark Griswold.

12 posted on 02/05/2010 5:26:01 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My take on this:

Young was sent by Edwards to “acquire” the tape so it would not be used in a blackmail attempt. (She made threats, maybe?). Silky Pony doesn’t pay off to Young enough, so Young is gonna make some moolah this way.


13 posted on 02/05/2010 5:30:41 PM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
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To: Bean Counter

FU


14 posted on 02/05/2010 5:32:37 PM PST by SeeRushToldU_So ( Go Braves! Braves are gone.)
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To: Pollster1
Remember this?

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15 posted on 02/05/2010 5:32:52 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Keep your socialized health care off my body !!)
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To: maica
Must have been a very large box.

Better not comment...

16 posted on 02/05/2010 5:35:57 PM PST by NCjim ("You can't pick up a turd by the clean end", Bob Lonsberry on Obamacare)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I saw one on a bumper about a month ago. Just makes you wonder what kind of hell is driving that car.


17 posted on 02/05/2010 5:36:26 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder what John Kerry, the Vietnam vet, thinks of his buddy.


18 posted on 02/05/2010 5:38:40 PM PST by BlueAngel
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I don’t blame Young for doing this. Edwards ruined his life and threw him under the bus.


19 posted on 02/05/2010 5:39:53 PM PST by FTJM
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To: bwc2221

Yup, and the “scandal” isn’t about sex ... but about misuse of campaign funds.


20 posted on 02/05/2010 5:45:53 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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