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...
There are all sorts we can keep out if the evidence is they can't control their behavior.
When it comes to sex we could require spaying and neutering to even run.
Believe me, there'd be no shortage of candidates even under that standard.
My point was, however, that if the purpose of the action is to "protect the children" then it's OK to abuse the adults, right?
Freepmail my clicking on my name and send me a private freepmail.
This was just posted on another board....
Can anybody find the original?
Three More Former Pages Accuse Foley of Online Sexual Approaches
October 05, 2006 5:20 PM
Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz & Maddy Sauer Report:
Three more former congressional pages have come forward to reveal what they call "sexual approaches" over the Internet from former Congressman Mark Foley.
The pages served in the classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002. They independently approached ABC News after the Foley resignation through the Brian Ross & the Investigative Team's tip line on ABCNews.com. None wanted their names used because of the sensitive nature of the communications.
"I was seventeen years old and just returned to when Foley began to e-mail me, asking if I had ever seen my page roommates naked and how big their penises were," said the page in the 2002 class.
The former page also said Foley told him that if he happened to be in Washington, D.C., he could stay at Foley's home if he "would engage in oral sex" with Foley.
The page told ABC News he was interviewed this week by FBI agents who had a six-page list of questions about Foley and the exchanges.
The second page who talked with ABC News, a graduate of the 2000 page class, says Foley actually visited the old page dorm and offered rides to events in his BMW.
"His e-mails developed into sexually explicit conversations, and he asked me for photographs of my erect penis," the former page said.
The page said Foley maintained e-mail contact with him even after he started college and arranged a sexual liaison after the page had turned 18.
The third page interviewed by ABC News, a graduate of the 1998 page class, said Foley's instant messages began while he was a senior in high school.
"Foley would say he was sitting in his boxers and ask what I was wearing," the page said.
"It became more weird, and I stopped responding," the page said.
All three pages described similar instant message and e-mail patterns, with remarkably similar escalations of provocative questions.
"He didn't want to talk about politics," the page said. "He wanted to talk about sex or my penis," the page said.
The three new verbal accounts are in addition to two sets of sexually explicit instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages.
An online story on the Drudge Report Thursday claimed one set of the sexually explicit instant messages obtained by ABC News was part of a "prank" on the part of the former page, who reportedly says he goaded the congressman into writing the messages.
"This was no prank," said one of the three former pages who talked to ABC News today about his experience with the congressman.
Agree entirely. Well...the difference between this and Rathergate is, I really do think that Foley is a perv, and I don't really think Bush dodged his service. Hopefully, the GOP machine can turn the tables on this one without it looking like they're defending a pervert.
Here's the link if anyone else wants to email him....
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
OK..thanks....I could of sworn Elvis married someone when she was 16.....
Perhaps I mispoke. However, he did think he was writing to an underage kid at the time because the kid told him he wouldn't be 18 until later. Yes, the IMs got worse after that I agree. Except he did say something about "just dreaming" to who he thought, at the time, was an underage kid.
Why are you blaming the entire GOP and refusing to vote for any of them, ever again, because of one man?
Remind me, Glenn. Did PJ Buchanan ever win the presidensity? How about Ross Pee-Rot?
Now I'll admit, you've got 4 months seniority at FR on me, so I'll have to call you Sir. But I think Bush has done a good job against the damndest rotten opposition I've ever seen in my 80 years, Sir.
Bush bot? I'm too old to be a bot of any kind.
Yea, I believe these pages, not.
...including some conservative editorial writers, and some conservative talk show hosts and some conservative bloggers -- It makes my scalp crawl at the shallowness of the conservative "elite."
bttt
It stills says "Were Page Prank Gone Awry"
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**
Wow, ABC was able to find this former page, get this quote, and write the story in less than 2.5 hours.
Quite!
Now we need to find out if he has ever lived in a trailer park.
Which is exactly how I feel about any 40 year old man hitting on a 18-22 year old girl. Both pervs and equal to me.
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