Posted on 10/04/2006 1:55:16 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
Edited on 10/04/2006 2:10:11 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
UPDATE: See updated article, posted before this one.
Alexander backs off claim Hastert knew
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WASHINGTON A third figure in the page scandal threatening to envelop the House speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, suggested Wednesday that the speaker knew of an inappropriate e-mail message that Representative Mark Foley had sent to a Louisiana boy before the matter became public.
Representative Rodney Alexander, the Louisiana Republican who sponsored the page at the heart of the furor, said Hastert "knew about the e- mails that we knew about," including one in which Foley asked the page to send his picture.
The speaker has said he was not aware of the e-mail messages when they were discussed with his staff. The No. 2 House Republican, Representative John Boehner of Ohio, and the House Republican campaign chairman, Representative Tom Reynolds of New York, said they had spoken with Hastert about a complaint concerning a former page from Louisiana last spring, after Alexander told them about it.
Hastert's position did not change after Alexander's comments. "The speaker's staff knew about this; the speaker didn't," said his spokesman, Ron Bonjean.
Alexander asserted on Fox News that Hastert's knowledge was limited to e- mail messages that made the page uncomfortable - not the salacious instant messages Foley is reported to have made to pages.
The chairmen of two coalitions of social and fiscal conservatives in Congress rallied behind Hastert as some other conservatives demanded that he step down.
But the House majority whip, Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, said he would have done things differently. Although he did not criticize Hastert, his remarks in Springfield, Missouri, were no endorsement of the speaker's actions.
Alexander has already backed off this story.
A little behind the curve here. Alexander has already recanted this statement.
that said, there seems to have been a pattern of behavior here. they should have pushed him out earlier.
Are they speaking of the same emails that the St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald knew about?
The email shopper showed the emails -- exactly what Alexander, et al. saw -- to the Miami Herald and they declined to print the story.
Old (known about) overly friendly Emails are different from explicit (newly learned about) IM's
Old (known about) overly friendly Emails are different from explicit (newly learned about) IM's
Old (known about) overly friendly Emails are different from explicit (newly learned about) IM's
The e-mails were suggestive, but nothing more. They're not the issue. The issue is the IM's. Only someone in the homo chat group would know about them, and that person hasn't come forward. The left wing homo lobby is reportedly trying to destroy Republicans, but thats all anyone knows so far.
It's worth noting congressional pages are and more mature and sophisticated than the average 16-17-year-old, and also much more interested in politics. Whichever page saved those IM logs knew exactly what he was doing and probably had visions of becoming a 'Rat version of what Karl Rove is supposed to be.
The Feds can't seem to find any broken laws, either. It's a "Homosexual right" to mount a 16 year old.
My point was, if they're the same emails as the papers saw(St. Pete Times and Miami Herald)...they didn't write a story because they didn't think there was anything "there"...in other words, they must not have been "lewd" or the left leaning papers would have run with them.
I was also unaware, until this story broke, that you could save IM's. Guess you learn something new everyday.
If they told America that their main efforts in 2007 would be "cut and run in Iraq" and "Impeachment of Bush and Cheney", they wouldn't get the votes to win.
If he saved his IM's (right click in the corner, File/save as) through AIM (AOL), anyone can retrieve them who has free access to his computer. Yahoo needs a password to get into the message archive. There's MSM and others as well. I'm not sure about those.
Besides, who the heck bothers to save IM's? There must have been a "reason" they were saved. Some one would need access to his computer while it was logged on to find them.
You can save IMs.
Question is, who saved them and how did they get to Democrat operatives? Hackers? Handed over by the page?
Don't need a password to recover Yahoo IMs saved as text.
"Conversation - Save as - im.txt" is the default (at least on my systems).
If someone else snooped someone's computer for files, who snooped and who's computer?
That person knew they existed. That's the person who needs to be found.
And who was that person that covered it up until now? It wasn't a Republican. We want to win this election.
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