Get Your Lawyers Foleygate Scandal About to Bust Open (Gateway Pundit doing good detective work!)

Gateway Pundit ^ | 10/4/06

[areafiftyone]

** THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO BUST OPEN! **

What we know now...

Radical Gay Rights Activists held on to information about Representative Foley for months and years. These "Rights Activists" knew that representative Foley had relationships with "young men less than half his age." They did their own investigation on Foley. They even flew in their sources in to be interviewed about the Representative. They shared this information with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. They held on to the information for over a year. They wrote about how they would break the story at midterm elections.

MORE:
These you must read to catch up on the story...
MacsMind - Foleygate Part IV
MacsMind - Foleygate Part V

QandO Blog now has evidence that John Aravosis (the radical gay activist from AmericaBlog- "He deserves to be publicly excoriated." 7-2004) had copies of the emails "months ago!"

This is important from Macsmind-

"However, I do know that the specific focus of the FBI at this point is to determine who knew about Foley’s activities, when they knew it and specifically who withheld evidence in what may be a Federal Crime. Yet like in many investigations, there is sometimes the uncovering of other crimes that takes place. It should be said at this point that the attempt to extort or influence, or threaten a US congressman, in order to influence legislation, or an election is a Federal Crime, and if in fact principals were involved in such an orchestrated plan it will be discovered."

Again, I must point out that even as a constituant of former respresentitive Foley, I detest his actions, and do not condone and accept them in anyway. In fact I support his prosecution if applicable laws have been broken. But again, those who particpated before the fact in the “outing” of Foley, seem to have had at this point specific knowledge of his activities and if proven at the least are guilty of conspriracy to withhold evidence, and obstruction of justice.

Sweetness and Light reported on the Mike Rogers connection on Sunday:

Well the good news is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is finally getting it. I called their Director of Communications, Bill Burton, before the Foley story broke to let him know about Foley (and another case) were coming down the pike. While Burton promised to have someone email or return my call and didn't, I am glad he followed up on my call and was ready on Friday to come out of the gate running.

The bad new is they are still not paying enough attention... There are others within reach... If the Democrats would only fight half as hard as the Republicans.

Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker has more.

According to Lifson, Aravosis (one of the known liberals outing gay congress people) said he obtained the latest information about the five-term congressman from Foley’s former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham.

QUESTION - Did Fordham have acccess to Foley’s IM account information, screen name and password? Very likely. Could he have passed this information onto Aravosis and Rogers? Very possible. Could some of the IMs been manufactured then by Rogers or Aravosis, those being reported by ABC. Probable.

We know someone logged onto Foley’s IM account yesterday when he was in a treatment center for 20-30 seconds, according to Fox News. Could this have been Rogers or Aravosis?

Wild Bill at Passionate America has big news he is reporting at 4:00 PM CST today.
Look for that!

** And, then there is this BOMBSHELL from Clarice...

Dick Morris just said on FOX that a respected reporter told him that she has proof that a senior democrat member of congress knew about the IMs months ago–unlike Hastert.

Also, keep an eye on The Strata-Sphere.
Right Wing Nuthouse is also on the story.
HotAir on "Saving IM Messages 101."

This could get real messy!

One other point-
ABC's Ross made it sound like the IM's came from a "Republican". Mike Rogers calls himself a Republican(?) This would make sense.

World Net Daily is on the story.

Previously:
The Foley Fallout
Foley Fallout: What We Know Now
Foleygate! Altered Images! What's Going On Here?
Foleygate: What Stunk Like a Rat, Was a Democ-Rat!
If Gay Activists & Democrats Knew of Foley, Why Were They Silent?

posted by Gateway Pundit at 10/04/2006 05:40:00 AM

[FReepaholic]

...DNC's Culture of Conniption ...

ROFLMAO!!!

[GretchenM]

Much hinges on if the whole Congressional membership picks this up. The GOP have their wet fingers in the wind, according to what I heard on the news last night. If constituents raise a stink, it sounded to me like the GOP MoC's will get all huffy about Hastert, what he knew, why didn't he do something, etc.

I am waiting to learn more before I decide what to think about Hastert, but it is bothering me something awful that Brit Hume and Ann Coulter both said on TV they'd heard the rumors that Foley was gay. Hastert had to have heard them too. Probably knew more than that. So when he got a heads up about some smoke coming from the male pages' cloak room, having to do with Foley, he should have done something immediately to find out more.

I heard him on the news last night trying to throw this off as democrats attacking him. That stinks because it sounds like all he cares about is holding onto his High and Mighty Power, when he should be more concerned about the youth in the House of Representatives who are making noises about a certain Congressman. If he had said something like, "There are people who would like to take advantage of this for personal or political purposes, but we are going to get the truth and make sure our pages are safe," I would have been a lot happier.

And yet, the best course, it seems to me, would have been to investigate when the first stench of this wafted before the Speaker's Chair.

[rippingmyhairout]

Pelosi knew....and she never told Hastert! She should have informed him so that he could take care of the situation. Pelosi knew I'm telling you. All the Dems knew about Foley....but to them, Foley's behavior is a "lifestyle choice" (ie: Barney Franks, McGreevey, Studds, etc.) and acceptable in the Democrat Party. Now they hang Foley out to dry in the midterm elections. Shameful!

[Republican Red]

Comments section, post #6
http://polipundit.com/wp-comments-popup.php?p=15288&c=1#comments

FYI, you may have heard this, but Selena Zito with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review (I’m pretty sure that’s right) called in on a local (Birmingham,Alabama) talk radio program this morning. She said a major story might break today that a high ranking Democrat knew about the Foley matter and she hinted there was coordination with ABC, probably through George Stephanopoulos to release the story. (Not taking away from what a disgusting creep Foley is, but considering the reaction by the Dems to the story, this would look pretty bad for them IMO). Zito said she had a few more facts to verify, she does not want to report anything until she’s absolutely certain.

She also said other “outings” would most likely occur before the election and would further hurt the Republicans although she said Democrats would probably be affected as well.

I’m paraphrasing what she said, this is basically the gist of it. When the talk radio host asked when this might come out, she said he would be her second phone call.

[anymouse]

Sean Hannity discussing this right now on his radio show.

[FreedomProtector]

"We need Bloggers to find out the dirty work behind everything. Foley is guity of being a disgusting sleezebag and should be prosecuted if he's guilty but the Democrats knew about this and sat on it until the 2006 elections."


PING!!

[GOPJ]

Dick Morris just said on FOX that a respected reporter told him that she has proof that a senior democrat member of congress knew about the IMs months ago...

Hmmmmm

[areafiftyone]

Good for Sean! There is more to this story. Just found out the blogger who was going to post the name of the Page is probably not going to do it. I was reading some of the hate messages he got. Apparently the Leftist News Site Raw Story and DU got wind of it and decided to make it hard on him.

[Republican Red]

Passionate America just named the person Foley IM'd

I don't feel comfortable giving out the guys name but he is 21 years old! He graduated from the page program in 2002 and is currently working as Deputy Campaign Manager for Ernest Istook in Oklahoma City.

http://passionateamerica.blogspot.com/

[LikeLight]

So who is this Ernest Istook - Republican or Dem?

[atlaw]

A point that seems to be getting lost.

[Dave S]

I don't feel comfortable giving out the guys name but he is 21 years old! He graduated from the page program in 2002 and is currently working as Deputy Campaign Manager for Ernest Istook in Oklahoma City.

Guess that ends his political career if he was the one having telephone sex with Foley.

[upcountryhorseman]

Gee, When the democrat homosexuals acted up, They didn't raise a big stink! The timing on this is very suspicious.

[anymouse]

At least now he can confirm the content of the IMs.

It is curious that (a) his AOL account hadn't been used for very long, yet he supposedly (b) saved the IM log file.

a. It might be understandable that he dumped the AOL account after the disturbing chats with Foley.

b. But why would he save the IM log, if he just wanted to get away from Foley? Another explanation is that either he was setting up Foley. But why wait so long to expose him.

c. Another explanation is that the IMs were less explicit than purported and a 3rd party more recently found his AOL e-mail address associated with Foley's office and knew that Foley had a private AOL account, and then forged the IM log.

d. The ex-Foley cheif of staff probably would have had access to both Foley's AOL e-mail address and former page's e-mail address. I hope the FBI is grilling both of these people hard to get to the bottom of this.

Likely this ex-page will be talking to the media and will say that the IM contents were as portrayed or that they have been altered.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[spokeshave]

"Radical Gay Rights Activists held on to information about Representative Foley for months and years. These "Rights Activists" knew that representative Foley had relationships with "young men less than half his age." They did their own investigation on Foley. They even flew in their sources in to be interviewed about the Representative. They shared this information with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. They held on to the information for over a year. They wrote about how they would break the story at midterm elections."

And where would these "Rights Activists" get the FUNDING for all this (long term) activity including plane tickets.....were they from Clearwater FL....?.......hint Scientologists....?

I read on another thread that Foley was connected to this group....could they be "putting the squeeze" (no pun intended) on the big F?