3rd Lawmaker Says Hastert Knew About Lewd E-Mails (Story is false: Lawmaker has already rescinded)

International Herald Tribune ^ | October 4, 2006 | associated press

[babaloo]

Alexander has already backed off this story.

[msnimje]

A little behind the curve here. Alexander has already recanted this statement.

[wildwood]

yeah, and didn't liberal newspapers, etc., know about the emails too? the point is not that they knew about the emails, but the instant messages, which were the real disease. people should understand the difference. i thought the fbi looked at them too and said no crime was committed.

that said, there seems to have been a pattern of behavior here. they should have pushed him out earlier.

[jveritas]

Liberals and their media are really desperate, aren't they? Do they really believe that this stupid story is going to make them control Congress? We are fortunate that our political opponents are very stupid.

[Paige]

This is old news. The GOP is now in the process of handing the Democrats a major defeat and as for FOLEY.... he resigned... now time to focus on defeating the Terrorist and the Democrats. Or was I being redundant?

[concerned about politics]

Hastert knew about the e-mails. He even said so. According to FOX News Live today, the boys parents said Hastert did exactly what they asked him to do. He stopped the e-mails.
The question is - who knew about the explicit homo instant messages? That's what needs to come out. So far, the homos on the far left knew all about them but refused to report it to the Feds. They allowed it to continue.

[dawn53]

Are they speaking of the same emails that the St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald knew about?

[AmishDude]

The email shopper showed the emails -- exactly what Alexander, et al. saw -- to the Miami Herald and they declined to print the story.

[icwhatudo]

Repeat after me media and congress people:

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

[concerned about politics]

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.

[cynwoody]

The question is - who knew about the explicit homo instant messages? That's what needs to come out. So far, the homos on the far left knew all about them but refused to report it to the Feds. They allowed it to continue.

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.

[concerned about politics]

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.

The Feds can't seem to find any broken laws, either. It's a "Homosexual right" to mount a 16 year old.

FBI's Foley Case Eyes Legal 'Gray Area'

[dawn53]

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.

[weegee]

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.

[concerned about politics]

I was also unaware, until this story broke, that you could save IM's. Guess you learn something new everyday.

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.

[weegee]

You can save IMs.

Question is, who saved them and how did they get to Democrat operatives? Hackers? Handed over by the page?

[weegee]

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?

[concerned about politics]

Question is, who saved them and how did they get to Democrat operatives?

That person knew they existed. That's the person who needs to be found.

[concerned about politics]

If someone else snooped someone's computer for files, who snooped and who's computer?

And who was that person that covered it up until now? It wasn't a Republican. We want to win this election.