Okaay. . .can we play. . .connect the dots? Or, read a story, behind the lines?
"trying to understand what's going on?"
Hmmm.
This ISN'T the kid who was talking about how he abused the towels his mother then had to wash, right?
The Emails this kid received weren't of a sexual nature, right?
This "boy" is now a 19 year old, am I right so far?
If so, to say that he is " just trying to understand what's going on" says to me that this kid is a few bricks short of a full load. The other IM, with all the towel sex, was made about 3 years ago it seems, and it was an IM in which the "kid" certainly didn't appear to NOT know what was going on, and was in fact quite willing to explain his methods without being provoked to do so.
Now, who would save an IM file for so long? Even someone who doesn't maintain their PC very often would have wiped these files off at some point with even the cheapest of PC maintenance programs, or have bought a new PC by now.
It looks to me that this particular IM, the towel humping one, was deliberately created by someone who knew of Foley's fettishes, shortly after the last election, and sat on all this time for use during this one.
I don't know how many times I've read while lerking around DU during their whining and crying and near suicide attempts after they lost, that they should begin gathering dirt to release during the next one.
There seems to be a few other questionable emails floating around as well, and some comments by RATS that their "plan" and hard work was successful.
While I'm glad Foley is gone, there remains the questions brought up by some of these IM's and emails that look fabricated in order to exploit Foley's sickness, not just to have him removed, but to use as an election time exploit to damage the whole Republican side. They certainly were not supressed to protect naive young boys.
Let's hope the FBI do not overlook these less than truthful exploits.