Posted on 10/05/2006 11:50:13 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 10/05/2006 1:00:50 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
>XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 5 2006 2:53:48 ET XXXXX
CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, goaded an unwitting Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.
The primary source, an ally of Edmund, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund. Both are fearful that their political careers will be affected if they are publicly brought into the matter.
The prank scenario only applies to the Edmund IM sessions and does not necessarily apply to any other exchanges between the former congressman and others.
The news come on the heels that Edmund has hired former Timothy McVeigh attorney, Stephen Jones.
Developing...
Edmonds was not the page involved with the emails.
Thanks for posting that. She's spot on!
My understanding is that they are different. In fact, I believe the emails to the 16 year old page were in 2005, and the IM's were earlier than that. Sorry if that is wrong. There are some timelines at Strata-sphere that indicate that.
I just checked & Drudge removed the prank statement from his website.
Wonder what's going on.
Oh that is silly. Would you ban heterosexuals from congress to protect kids. For crying out loud, banning gays from congress is ridiculous.
Exactly. Why would you hang on to sexually explicit IM's for three years if it was only a prank to begin with? And as far as believing that the IM's ended up in the hands of "enemy political operatives" by mistake, all I've got to say is: "I might have been born at night, but it wasn't last night."
I'm a recently retired high school teacher. You should see the agenda they've been pushing in the schools. It's not pretty.
ABC announces that three more pages have come forward to say that Foley made inappropriate advances toward them.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714483/posts
bttt
"The Dems don't want Freeh because he wrote some less-than-complimentary things about Clinton."
They don't want Freeh because he does an honest job in investigations. Allows the chips to fall where they may...so to speak.
I still see 'Prank' on Drudge
Besides, all these guys are dieing of AIDS anyway.
Still there for me.
Edmunds is not the kid in Louisiana who received the creepy emails and reported it to his congressman. Edmunds is the kid whom Foley had the sexually-explicit IM(s) with and is from California. We do not know who the kid in Louisiana is and we should never find out.
NO!!Just the opposite, I think the page wrote to Foley as a joke, Foley wrote back not knowing it was a joke, and got caught 3 years later. The one IM that I have seen (about him not being 18 until Feb) certainly did not seem to be a first time IM. I want to see them all, did they start out innocently and progress into something sick from there? Did these kids get together and decide to see how far they could take Foley? What is the whole nexus of this scandal.
I think Foley is a pig and I am glad he resigned.
I just looked at Drudge and the statement is still there what are you talking about?
Thank you for that. You are right, at least I hope so. I still would not give into them, it's not about them.
Yep. DC is Hollywood for ugly people.
Sure your a "conservative" and not a RINO puppet?
How do you know Foley "duped" other kids? You have info about who held the IM's?
Notice who is in hiding? Foley is and playing the blame game that started when Eve blamed the snake and Adam blamed Eve instead of admitting the perverted sinful truth.
"CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY"
just now.
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