Posted on 10/02/2006 9:57:22 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
At least two news organizations were tipped off to e-mail messages sent by Representative Mark Foley long before the story of his sexually explicit remarks to teenage pages broke last week and forced him to resign.
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Brian Ross of ABC News said he learned about the e-mail messages in August but was too busy with Hurricane Katrina and the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks to pursue them immediately. None of the organizations seemed to anticipate how big the story would become.
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Then, in June, the reports resurfaced on Capitol Hill, where a neighborhood resident struck up a conversation in a bar with someone who had provided the e-mail messages. He said he passed them on to several news outlets. The resident, who said he was not affiliated with either party and was motivated by concern for the teenager, would talk only on condition of anonymity.
No one acted on the information until last week, and even then, it was a Web site that first posted the exchange. It is not clear who maintains the Weblog, stopsexpredators.blogspot.com, which appears to be largely devoted to the Foley scandal.
ABC News had its first account several days later on its Web site.
Mr. Ross said he was surprised by how quickly the congressmans office confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail messages, first when ABC reported them on Sept. 28, and again a day later when confronted with much more explicit exchanges.
Mr. Ross dismissed suggestions by some Republicans that the news was disseminated as part of a smear campaign against Mr. Foley.
I hate to give up sources, but to the extent that I know the political parties of any of the people who helped us, it would be the same party, Mr. Ross said, referring to Republicans.
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You should have a local FBI office. If you truly are worried, you can contact them and they can assist you. I don't know if local offices are open overnight.
BE CAREFUL!!
Thanks for your help.
I guess I should have worded my post better .. it's late and I'm tired
Everything I've read about the bars in DC .. many are a who's who in gossip and rumors
I'd be very curious to know whp this anonymouse resident is and who s/he spoke to
-PJ
Thanks. I sent my 'findings' over to American Thinker and Clarice Feldman(I hope they get it) and am going to wait until I hear back from them before I do anything.
-PJ
Be careful and be wise!
Another memo gate enroute.
:)
Yeah right. This is sucha glaring, blatant LIE I can hardly look at it. Someone hand me a welding mask.
This is starting to look more and more like a planned setup. They knew what Foley was, and sent a willing teenage RAT in to entice him more?
It's starting to smell just like a CBS fake letter setup.
Guys, I'm letting this one play out. This thing stinks to high heaven. Foley may be guilty, but this thing has an MD4Bush smell to it I don't like.
Diddo!
Democrats on full attack mode! (October surprise?)
And yes, Foley gets what he deserves...
So he's saying; I don't know their party but it is the Republicans. How do you know what you say you don't know?
And this is the story that will overtake the resigning story. Rove will work this just right. The dems have gotten this out about 3 weeks to soon.
"Brian Ross of ABC News said he learned about the e-mail messages in August but was too busy with Hurricane Katrina..."
Katrina was a 2005 event. He seems to be lying to cover a timeline.
Stink to high heaven!
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