BUSTED....WASHINGTON POST REPORTS DEMOCRATS BEHIND FOLEYGATE!

Gateway Pundit ^ | 10/11/06

[areafiftyone]

Do you suppose this will make the front pages for the next week?

The Washington Post reports that democratic operatives were behind the Foleygate scandal this morining:

But there are indications that Democrats spent months circulating five less insidious Foley e-mails to news organizations before they were finally published by ABC News late last month, which prompted the leaking of the more salacious instant messages. Harper's Magazine said yesterday that it obtained the five e-mails from a Democratic Party operative, albeit in May, long before the election season.

Those 2004 e-mails -- dubbed "over-friendly" by House Republican leaders -- originally leaked out of the office of Rep. Rodney Alexander (La.), a Republican. But, Republicans say, they still may have come from a Democrat on his staff. Alexander changed parties in 2004.

Of course, the media is doing what it can to salvage the democrat's reputation with this latest disclosure:

"There was never a plan to undermine the GOP or to destroy Hastert personally, as the speaker has vaingloriously suggested," Ken Silverstein, Washington editor for Harper's, said on the magazine's Web site yesterday. "I know this with absolute certainty because Harper's was offered the story almost five months ago."

Silverstein said his source was a "Democratic operative," the same source that had provided the e-mail exchanges to the St. Petersburg Times in November 2005. Both the magazine and the paper declined to publish a story. But the source "was not working in concert with the national Democratic Party," Silverstein added. "This person was genuinely disgusted by Foley's behavior, amazed that other publications had declined to publish stories about the emails, and concerned that Foley might still be seeking contact with pages."

AJ Strata has more on these latest Foleygate developments and corrects the Washington Post on its timeline.
Macsmind reports that Jeff Trandahl, the former House clerk who oversaw the House Page Program, was supposed to testify on Tuesday.
The Jawa Report notes that both the democrats and the media knew about the emails for months.

All that is left to this October surprise is nailing down which democrats were out pushing the documents!
Today's report follows yesterday's admission by Harper's that it was democrats out pushing the documents.

posted by Gateway Pundit at 10/11/2006 05:45:00 AM

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[areafiftyone]

Jeeze the Media is just going after this story ((((crickets chirping)))))

[Suzy Quzy]

Democrat Heads better roll on this one!!

[Sloth]

I hereby demand that every Democratic official in the United States resign.

[johnny7]

“My goodness... ”

[DocRock]

Make them testify as to what they knew and when they knew it... under oath!

[LRS]

A couple of excerpts of interest:

...(Washington editor for Harper's Ken)Silverstein said his source was a "Democratic operative," the same source that had provided the e-mail exchanges to the St. Petersburg Times in November 2005....

...The Post subsequently received the instant messages from a Democratic college student who had served as a page with the two teenagers who had corresponded with Foley and had shared their instant messages.

Unlike the ABC News source, The Post's source conceded that he would like to see the Democrats seize control of the House in November, but when approached by a Post reporter about the instant messages, he was reluctant to provide them. Days later, he did so....

[graf008]

We need more than that. A Democratic college student? A former staffer?

We need the DSCC, Howard Dean or someone higher up - otherwise it looks like a bunch of people who just happened to be Democrats, not the efforts of a concerted effort.

[magellan]

Smoking Gun #1.

Drudge claims the IMs were handed to a Democrat operative as well. If that shoe falls, the scandal enters Phase 2: "What did the Democrats know, and when did they know it".

The MSM, as liberal as they are, will act on instinct rather than politics when blood is in the water.

[WhiteGuy]

Make them testify as to what they knew and when they knew it... under oath!


Make them all do it, republicans and democrats.

[satchmodog9]

Im sure they will. ha

[aft_lizard]

You are thinking like a Republican, think like a Dem and you will see that all you have to be is connected to so and so.

[GOPJ]

Those 2004 e-mails -- dubbed "over-friendly" by House Republican leaders -- originally leaked out of the office of Rep. Rodney Alexander (La.), a Republican. But, Republicans say, they still may have come from a Democrat on his staff. Alexander changed parties in 2004. Of course, the media is doing what it can to salvage the democrat's reputation with this latest disclosure...

If you're still giving money to the MSM, it's time to stop...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Todays info....thanks to areafiftyone for spotting and posting!

[areafiftyone]

Never did and never will.

[areafiftyone]

Thanks to Gateway Pundit for keeping on this. Bloggers believe that the Democrats are the ones that planned this and they won't stop till the MSM knows it!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nice little narrative from earlier in October:

On Foley…It’s “what could the do and when could they do it?”

Thanks to tophat9000

[onyx]

Exacellent, but I will not be happy until this information is trumpeted as loudly and as often as it was originally. IOW's the truth has already been left at the station.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I hope you are not holding your breath waiting for your statement to be proven. If so you will look like a smurf before getting to take the next breathe.

This will NOT be spread by the Treason Media at all.

[RandallFlagg]

Make them testify as to what they knew and when they knew it... under oath!

Make them all do it, republicans and democrats.

Problem with that is the librats feel justified to lie under oath if it helps them gain power.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What other evidence do we need other than the admissions by Harpers and the WaPo that they dealt with democrat operatives and used democrat sources bent on impacting the coming elections? - AJ Strata

Evidence that the Washington Post is Democratic? I'm shocked - shocked!

Politics is controversy about what constitutes the public interest. In claiming to be objective, Journalism identifies the public interest with itself and its own interest.

But the interest of journalism is the promotion of journalism at the expense of the rest of society. Journalism's "objectivity" promotes journalism's hypercritical outlook over business, which journalism belabors as paying its employees too little and its management too much - and of polluting and depleting the earth while charging too much for its product. Journalism promotes itself over the police, which it accuses of brutality and failure to capture fugitives. And journalism promotes itself over the military, which journalism accuses of spending too much money, killing too many people and breaking too many things, and failing to accomplish its mission with no loss of American lives.

Those who promote journalism's self-interested agenda journalism flatters, those who oppose that agenda journalism slanders. "Liberals" and "progressives" and "moderates" promote talk and criticism above action and responsibility for results. In its halcyon days journalism called those who respect concrete action such as manufacturing and law enforcement and national defense "right wing cold warriors." But then Ronald Reagan had the temerity to win the Cold War. Now they are reduced to decrying "Tax cuts for the rich" when their opponents promote the real economy.

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