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Internal Review of Contacts with the Office of the Speaker Regarding the Cong. Mark Foley Matter
Office of Speaker Hastert
| Saturday, September 30, 2006
Posted on 09/30/2006 7:02:50 PM PDT by kristinn
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:02:53 PM PDT
by
kristinn
To: Howlin; nopardons; Dianna
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:05:00 PM PDT
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
Looks like the "plausible deniability" game.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:09:28 PM PDT
by
RKBA Democrat
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
To: All
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:09:43 PM PDT
by
kristinn
To: kristinn
Good find, Kristinn! This needs to be widely disseminated immediately.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:11:56 PM PDT
by
REDWOOD99
To: kristinn
Amazing. These birds never even have time to read the content of the many bills they pass, but there's always time for listening to lobbyists and trying for daliances with one sex or the other.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:16:04 PM PDT
by
holyscroller
(A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him to the left)
To: kristinn
"The Clerk asked to see the text of the email. Congressman Alexander's office declined citing the fact that the family wished to maintain as much privacy as possible and simply wanted the contact to stop. The Clerk asked if the email exchange was of a sexual nature and was assured it was not. Congressman Alexander's Chief of Staff characterized the email exchange as over-friendly."
The parents only wanted it to cease and if they had thought it was more of a problem at the time they would have called the police.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:21:08 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: kristinn
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:22:39 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(Should we wait for them to come and kill us again? President Karzai 9/26/06)
To: kristinn
What is the large point? I am lost on this.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:22:52 PM PDT
by
don-o
(Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
To: holyscroller
The parents did not want this pursued. Since the explicit nature of the communication was not revealed I don't see how Hastert's office can be faulted.
Let's not allow the drive by media to dictate our response.
loveya, Jan
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:24:10 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(Should we wait for them to come and kill us again? President Karzai 9/26/06)
To: OldFriend
Let's not allow the drive by media to dictate our response. But some drive by "true conservative" posters on FR will.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:32:18 PM PDT
by
Dane
("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
To: kristinn
When a 50yo gay man starts asking a 16yo boy for a picture, anybody with common sense would start asking some difficult questions.
If those questions weren't asked, it was either stupidity or corruption.
I think Hastert needs to resign, and Foley belongs in prison.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:38:25 PM PDT
by
nj26
(Border Security=Homeland Security... Put Our Military on the Border! (Proud2BNRA))
To: kristinn
What puzzles me is that 10-11 months went by after Foley was warned to have no contact with the page. If the boy was still receiving e-mails, especially the obscene ones reported in the news, why did he not report them either to the authorities or his parents?
Something smells. Either the boy and his parents knew of these more explicit e-mails much earlier and chose to neither say nor do anything for months or they did make a fuss to the House authorities who decided to cover it up.
As I cannnot fathom either scenario, I suspect that the parents must have approached a third party, perhaps the press, who advised them to remain silent, keep track of them and bide their time.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:39:02 PM PDT
by
RonnG
To: RonnG
"Either the boy and his parents knew of these more explicit e-mails much earlier and chose to neither say nor do anything for months or they did make a fuss to the House authorities who decided to cover it up."
Or the boy knew about continued emails but the parents only found out later.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:40:55 PM PDT
by
nj26
(Border Security=Homeland Security... Put Our Military on the Border! (Proud2BNRA))
To: RonnG
If the boy was still receiving e-mails, especially the obscene ones reported in the news, why did he not report them either to the authorities or his parents? The e-mails were not sexually explicit, creepy yes, but not sexually explicit.
The IM's to another page were sexually explicit. The page who worked for Alexander did not receive sexually explicit e-mails or IM's.
Hastert and the leadership had no knowledge of the IM's.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:44:34 PM PDT
by
Dane
("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
To: nj26
Haster had no knowledge of the IM's, but you do your usual kneejerk dance.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:45:41 PM PDT
by
Dane
("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
To: RonnG
If the boy was still receiving e-mails, especially the obscene ones reported in the news, why did he not report them either to the authorities or his parents? Could the IM's have been to a different boy?
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:51:20 PM PDT
by
alnick
To: nj26
I wish there was a law that would put Foley behind bars but unless there was porn involved or the authorities can prove he had at least sexual intentions then he's not going to jail. Dirty talk is just that, dirty talk and is protected as free speech. The parents could have very easily become parents and either took the kids communication devises or had the kid change all his e-mail addresses so as the perv would leave him alone. Know what your kids are doing all the time and it definitely helps keep the pervs away.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:52:35 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: tobyhill
Pink Elephant in the Room. Why are we all assuming that all Foley did was cyber sex? I think we shouldn't be shocked if another shoe drops.
To: kristinn
Thanks for posting this. Had to laugh when Ann Coulter pointed out that such problems have existed for the Democrats, that those individuals again ran for office, and won. When she told the Dem operative that Republicans won't accept the same behavior, the Dem had nothing else to say and shifted uncomfortably. He knew she was right.
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posted on
09/30/2006 7:55:26 PM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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