[bnelson44]

Thanks, I appreciate that. But I don't trust this blogger because if he were honorable, he wouldn't be so blatantly exposing a victim without concrete evidence and without at least trying to find out the other side of the story. I think the blogger is glorifying in the limelight and in the fact that he thinks he has put 2 + 2 together...and wants to be the 1st one out there with the blog that does so.

Still, I don't see the proof.

[jrooney]

Drudge is saying himself he verified the kids age. Not hard when you know someones name, school they went to etc. to find out what year they wer born.

[misterrob]

Then believe what you want and stop asking people to prove things to you.

[psjones]

Neither do we have proof the page or ex page was underage, just Brian Ross' word. Besides, as much as I've read about this story, I didn't hear anyone say the Ims were to someone who was close to being 18. What I came away with in reading the initial IMs was that you had 2 guys who were willingly chatting about guy stuff, to put it delicately.

[wouldntbprudent]

Have you read the blog and looked at the evidence he links to/posts?

Sure, I suppose he could falsify stuff, but that'd be pretty stupid.

[LibLieSlayer]

"But I don't trust this blogger because if he were honorable, he wouldn't be so blatantly exposing a victim without concrete evidence and without at least trying to find out the other side of the story."


He left his phone number with Isstooks office, and asked that the young man call him about the story. He stated that the blog published his findings before he told them it was ok to post it.

In the case of this apparent manufactured story, this man had to have been involved in saving and then releasing these IM's just before the election. If he indeed was 18 (and he was for most of the IM's), he is no longer a victim, but he is a "participant"! To quote Mr. Spock, "THE NEEDS OF THE MANY OUT WEIGH THE NEEDS OF THE FEW"!

LLS

[capt. norm]

Still, I don't see the proof.

Let's not start making a list of things you don't see......I don't have all night.

The cure for not seeing is putting a little more effort in to "looking" and "reading".

[Smogger]

exposing a victim...

Okay. I gotta ask. A victim of what exactly? I watchin the media spin this as though someone was putting their hands down a 10 years olds pants for days, and I am getting a little sick of it. By ABC's own admission the kid was just prior to being and/or already a legal adult, and frankly judging from his IM's maybe a gay adult at that. So let's not start talking about this incident as though someone was propositioning a 5 year old. Again I ask. Victim of what?