Posted on 10/04/2006 8:38:18 PM PDT by Jean S
Maybe he didn't realize that IMs could be saved, but was positive that e-mails could be printed out and saved OR maybe the IMs weren't sent by Foley. Maybe the instant messages were just sent from his computer. Maybe the IMs were fabrications from the get-go. Who knows?
Hey, I love a mystery as much as the next person and speculating is free.
"October Surprise" was born in 1980.
Yeah. We know all about "longtime Republicans." The Rats have them stashed away for times like this ...
This is false. The key question, as the article later grudgingly acknowledges, is who is the source of the instant messages, and how was it they were ready to go the instant the story about the e-mails broke. That is where I smell a Rat!
This story by Bolton has been very carefully worded so as to be factually true, whil at the same time telling a lie.
The writer would seem to know that the "intermediary" he is referring to was not co-operating with and fronting for his 'source': no, the "intermediary" was BLACKMAILING his source.
That's why the life-long republican is part of the October surprise -- it's because he's been BLACKMAILED into doing so!!!
I think you may be on to the real explanation. It would explain why there is an FBI investigation that is not focusing on Foley.
UPDATE IV: The Hill’s Alexander Bolton claims to have a “source” that says that a former GOP staffer was the source of the emails to the media.
However, it should be noted that Alexander Bolton is:
“Prior to joining The Hill in 2000, Alexander Bolton was assistant to David Corn at The Nation magazine and interned at Roll Call. A native of Greenwich, Conn., he received his B.A. degree in philosophy from Princeton University”
So whose “the source”? “Fluff”…..
Even so, it still doesn’t answer the question of who “held the messages”, and who knew about their existance since July or even before, all things we are going to find out soon.
All this from “an assistant to David Corn”?
http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/
You know, I don't believe a word anybody says about anything after this week.
But......for the record, Brian Ross said on Nightline tonight that NOBODY knew about the IMs until Friday afternoon after he posted his first story on his web page.
My, my, the "source" thought of everything, didn't they?
"Good morning, Brian. I'm a Republican but..."
As pointed out by other FReepers, this fiasco is now looking like an organized infiltration of gay sleepers into Republican staffs for neferious purposes - - - the whole thing is starting to unravel tonight and the (18+ year old) page at the center of the storm has hired bigtime criminal defense counsel. Gaygate is upon us.
I have since that time believed that the Senate refused to remove Clinton from office because of the "raw FBI material" in those files.
There are many more shoes to drop (but only on the Republican side or any dimocRAT who objects to tactics being used) I fear until Pubbies are brought to less than majority. If not this election, definitely '08.
Blackmail??
Thats what its looking like.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713970/posts?page=190#190
That is a blockbuster of a thread, but there are several others too.
Just got done playing poker tonight with a friend of mine. Turns out his son was a roommate with the page that this whole thing is about. The papers and networks have been calling him all week but he is not talking. His father shared that:
The page was not neive and was "flaming" obvious about his preferences. He actively flaunted.
Second, there was no meeting with the pages to warn them about Foley.
All kinds of crap being spewed by the press.
Which page? The Alexander page or the one whose name was published today?
Plus the emails were suspicious but had little substance for anyone to go after Foley on. The media wouldn't even run them as a story. There is a constant blur between the emails and IM's.
This article in particular really made me suspicious. And even if the "victim" was 17 part of the time, is that under any applicable age of consent?
Not that I have seen, unless there are different laws for "Republicans."
Something stinks to high hell here.
And boy do I hate liberals and the fecklessness of republican politicians. Has anyone noticed that instead of blasting the dems and media for their double standards, it is now becoming openly stated in the media that republicans will suffer for scandals and democrats will not?
What have you been smoking? It appears there was blackmail? Where is your proof? Saying it doesnt make it true. I think the guy hired the lawyer to protect his privacy and help him in preparing his testimony if he gets called before the Ethics Committee or grand jury investigating Foley. Every body lawyers up these days. Dont read criminal guilt into his hiring a lawyer.
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