The behavior of Foley is what is truly disgusting.....have you read the transcripts of his messenger account? Revolting to the point of gagging would be more accurate.
That this man was hiding behind the hypocrisy of child protection legislation just tops it.....
Once you read the scripts you won't care how outed him or why......this "guy' needs to be in prison.....
It is also important to prosecute those who knew about his proclivities towards young boys and yet covered it up. Those who found the messages pertaining to child abuse and did not take them to the authorities are also guilty of a crime...
regardless of their party affiliation, those who knew about Foley's messages to minors - and did nothing about them for OVER A YEAR - are to be condemned as well.
I think its time we find some facts out. There is no need to talk about Foley needing to be in prison if he didnt do anything illegal.
According to the law I can go outside my home and engage in sex with any 17 or 18 year old I find. Is that moral? Of course not. But this not following up Dem dirty tricks because we all feel we have to feel outrage. It was a huge abuse of power and position and trust regardless if it was illegal or not. That alone deserves his resigination. Since that has occured I am pretty satisified. If he committed a Feseral crime let hiom be prosecuted. But I have yet to see a statue yet
The key now is to figure out if our Republican leadership is being set up for scandal and to defamation regarding charges they are innocent of
Every one knew that Foley is gay. I haven't read the IM's, but I think that we would need some proof before, IMs can be taken for real evidence. It would be extremely unusual to save the IM communications and the whole thing is just too convenient.
Hastert is calling for an investigation into when the Democrats were made aware of the information (also, when CREW was made aware, and if they withheld information for political purposes, that could have led to abuse of under age victims.
There is much speculation that this could be another case like the Bush National Guard documents, but a lot more difficult to disprove because of the use of instant messaging.