Posted on 10/07/2006 7:40:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
John Aravosis is yapping up a storm, and letting out details he doesn’t quite comprehend are (a) not common knowledge and (b) implicate him as working to orchestrate Foleygate in the media. It is important to note all the activity in July of 2006 regarding the non-salacious emails between Foley and a Page from Louisianna (aka, the LA Page). I have done numerous posts on these emails (the last one here with back referencing links). Reader TopSecretK9 as reminded me of this Aravosis comment when he admitted in October that he had the Foley Emails in July and mentioned he had done nothing after talking to CREW. She found this recent Aravosis post which tipped some more information out:
When I received the Foley emails this past July, had I been warned two or three years ago that Foley was stalking pages, I’d have turned the emails over to the FBI myself, not waiting for CREW to do it (which was shortly after I received them anyway)
(Excerpt) Read more at strata-sphere.com ...
Pinging backhoe. Lots of GOOD information here.
GREAT research!
I'm just cutting and pasting....
It needs to be archived.
GOOD info.
Foley camp: Release of e-mails with teen 'political attack'
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By Larry Lipman
Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau
Friday, September 29, 2006 WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's campaign Thursday called the disclosure of a series of e-mails between the congressman and a 16-year-old former congressional page a "political attack and ... the worst kind of character assassination." But the campaign of Foley's challenger, Democrat Tim Mahoney, denied he was behind the release of the e-mails and said the issue should be "a matter for the appropriate authorities to investigate."
2005 Miss Gheens Bon Mange Queen XVIII
Danielle Savoy
A lot of interest in the Speaker.
Plateauing : Chart the Foley scandal
http://technorati.com/chart/foley?chartdays=10
Escalating : Chart the Hastert scandal
http://technorati.com/chart/hastert?chartdays=10
Special attention here:
Media Matters for America
"Media Matters is not "whining", they are taking one of the only approaches available given the reality underlying our situation."
I'm guessing the same line of folks involved in this were also the ones that "outed" that guy from Talon News that the press railed about until he was driven from the White House press corp
Jeff Gannon. Yes, probably so. He still writes and I read him occassionally.
Check out the funny comment:
http://www.jeffgannon.com/
ROTFL!
Thought you'd enjoy that!
You know, Gannon is/was a FReeper, but I haven't seen anything posted in a long time.
Another piece in the whole defoliation:
Sure you know Kirk Fordham used to work for David Corn at The Nation before going to The Hill.
Google Stratasphere blog and timeline. Everyone's adding on to it there.
Another page, via the LA Times….
“A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) after receiving explicit e-mails in which the congressman described assessing the sexual orientation and physical attributes of underage pages but waiting until later to make direct advances.
The former page, who agreed to discuss his relationship with Foley with the Los Angeles Times on the condition that he not be identified, said his electronic correspondence with Foley began after he finished the respected Capitol Hill page program for high school juniors. His sexual encounter was in the fall of 2000, he said. At the time, he was 21 and a graduate of a rural Northeastern college.
“I always knew you were a player but I don’t fool around with pages,” declared one instant message from Maf54, a screen name Foley used in exchanges that have become public involving male former pages.
The former page’s account is consistent with Foley’s assertion that he did not have sexual relations with minors, an issue that will be key to determining whether he committed crimes. The legal age of consent varies from state to state; in the District of Columbia, where the pages live in supervised dormitories, it is 16.”
More pages, no doubt the “page” flood gates are opening. The problem is with the anonymity. The question is just WHO is this page, and how do we know what we are hearing is true?
First, don’t you think that - if true - Foley ‘prowled the halls of congress’ we would have heard something long before now? I mean, the creep was in congress for twelve years. You mean to tell me that this page - now twenty seven - comes forward NOW to tell his story? But there are other flags to his story.
“Yet the former page’s exchanges with Foley offer a glimpse of possible predatory behavior by the congressman as he assessed male teenagers assigned as House errand-runners.
In the messages, Maf54 described how years earlier, he had looked to see whether the former page had an erection in his tight white pants while the then-teenager was working near the congressman. Maf54 also speculated about the sexual attributes of other males in the same page class, including the observation that one young man was “well hung.”
Foley abruptly resigned his House seat Sept. 29, after the disclosure of sexually oriented messages to former pages. Other messages were subsequently divulged, and questions concerning how much House Republican leaders knew about Foley and his interest in pages are being investigated by the House Ethics Committee. Foley is now in seclusion in an alcohol treatment facility, and his lawyer has declined to answer questions about specific pages.
The FBI has begun contacting former pages, and at least one — a deputy campaign manager for Rep. Ernest Istook, an Oklahoma Republican who is running for governor there — has hired a criminal defense lawyer, according to a published report. Istook issued a statement last week urging the media to protect the young man’s privacy after his name was briefly posted on the ABC News website.
The former page interviewed by The Times said he had not been contacted by the FBI or the House Ethics Committee. He agreed to talk to The Times only if his identity was protected, because of his fear that exposure could hurt his job prospects.”
Note that Edmund hired a “criminal defense attorney’, and I love the “urging the media to protect the young man’s privacy”, yeah, like with threatening letters. I’m all for protecting any of Foley’s “victims”, but this kid sound more like subject than a victim.
Additionally, this page claims that his experience occured during his “junior” year in school while a page which would put it around 1996. Now I have a lot of “legacy software”, and America Online’s “Instant Messenger” for certain in it’s capabities were limited, in fact it wasn’t released until May of 1997. At the very least it wasn’t until version 2.0 that it had close to the capabilities shown here.
Again, I’m not defending Foley, or challenging the vercactiy of any of these witnesses. But if they were this concerned they should have spoken before now, and they should be talking with the FBI, not the LA Times.
From: Macsmind
The only really really strange this Edmund hiring Tim McVeigh's attorney.
Some are wondering if BLACKMAIL was what the page had in mind.
The first statement from Foley after he went into rehab was.....I am gay!
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