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Three More Former Pages Accuse Foley of Online Sexual Approaches
ABC News Blog ^

Posted on 10/05/2006 2:45:06 PM PDT by mmyers

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 [my home state] 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 BLOTTER RECOMMENDS READER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED: Foley's Exchange with Underage Page Foley Instant Message Chat While Waiting for a House Vote Click Here to Watch This Week's Brian Ross Investigates Webcast 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.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcfrenzy; classaction; foley
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To: 4yearlurker

Its true. It is completely unwatchable. Lets see North Korea is building a bomb, Iran is building a bomb. Terrorist right to left have waged war on us in the west but I have to hear about Foley's emails with adults and FOLEY IS GONE!!!!! Do you think the story of Foley is cheaper to carry than the international ones? What crap. We better keep our eye on the ball the bad guys like to attack when we are preoccupied.


121 posted on 10/05/2006 3:10:29 PM PDT by newconhere (bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zap)
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To: madprof98
I love the quality of the discussion here when anyone so much as broaches a dissenting opinion.

I asked you for proof if any of the GOP leadership knew of the lurid IM's before they were released in the press and you can't provide it.

122 posted on 10/05/2006 3:10:48 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
And now it is claimed that ABC is sitting on a series of messages with other Congressmen of both parties as well. How much do you want to be the messages with the Democrats won't come out until after the election?
123 posted on 10/05/2006 3:10:59 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: George W. Bush; Soul Seeker

I wonder if ABC have been receiving any emails from past pages about Democratic Congress people.

And just not sharing those.


124 posted on 10/05/2006 3:11:09 PM PDT by Howlin (Why Won't Nancy Pelosi Let Louis Freeh Investigate the Page Scandal?)
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To: mmyers

Now the MSM is really starting to *iss me off.

Juanita Broaddrick "came forward" too, but was essentially ignored by the MSM.


125 posted on 10/05/2006 3:11:44 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("We have always been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France"--Wellington)
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To: mmyers
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

Oh, so they maintained e-mail contact and they arranged a "liaison" after the page was over 18?.

Sounds pretty consentual to me.

ABC is trying to cover it's a$$.

126 posted on 10/05/2006 3:11:50 PM PDT by pjsbro
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To: mmyers
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.

The most important question is, did any of them end their notes by saying, "bababooie"?

127 posted on 10/05/2006 3:11:51 PM PDT by Zeppo
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To: unspun
CBS gleefuly just stated that Republicans are in a panic. LOL! Keep up the spin C-BS:


128 posted on 10/05/2006 3:12:14 PM PDT by batter ("Never let the enemy pick the battle site." - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: mmyers
How could a person that was actually able to reach a Congressional position be so absolutely clueless?

I am not saying that Congress people are intrinsically brilliant. I just think that most are so busy doing the CYA thing all while being absolutely ruthless on a regular basis, that it seems unlikely that any one of them would engage in dumb ass Internet activities.

I am still not buying this entire thing.
129 posted on 10/05/2006 3:12:52 PM PDT by Radix (Due to time constraints, I can for the time being not review my pings.)
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To: Zeppo

ha.


130 posted on 10/05/2006 3:12:55 PM PDT by newconhere (bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zap)
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To: carola
If this information were true, I think one or more of these pages would have complained to whoever runs the page program.

Notice how they don't identify the political affiliation of these new 'victims'? Or the party of their congressional sponsor? The two earlier ones were both Democrat-affiliated. Funny, only young Democrats seems to object to gay seduction by some old perv.
131 posted on 10/05/2006 3:13:21 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: Bigh4u2
Ok. If this is true. Where are the emails or IM's?

hold on dan's typing them up now....


132 posted on 10/05/2006 3:13:39 PM PDT by edzo4
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To: mmyers
Foley is a perv. There is no news there. But how they are using this info to smear all Republicans as pro-perv is. Notices that many Democrats march in Gay Day parades in which there are always NAMBLA people in. Do the Democrats protest? No. Did they get rid of Gerry Studds? NO. They're pro-perv when it helps them, but they rail against the sick and seedy side of pervs when it suits their political agenda.
133 posted on 10/05/2006 3:14:50 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Civilization and democracy are under attack around the world, so Liberals attack Bush.)
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To: mmyers

Thier credibility is shot.


134 posted on 10/05/2006 3:14:57 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right! (There's a fine, fine line between a stoat and a sporkweasel.)
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To: Howlin

The MSM probably knows firsthand what sick men are in the Democrat party, and there probably are a few, hitting on pages and they've covered for them for years.

But my guess is if there are pages covering forward about Dems they'll at least be under age, have a paper trail to prove it and won't need to be fed talking points.


135 posted on 10/05/2006 3:15:06 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: denydenydeny
Now the MSM is really starting to *iss me off.

Just now?! Are you sure you shouldn't be using the past tense?

136 posted on 10/05/2006 3:15:31 PM PDT by batter ("Never let the enemy pick the battle site." - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: Radix

I've thought that something was fishy about this from the first second I heard about it. Not because my love for the GOP is so great that I think a Republican can do no wrong, but because there were too many questions popping up in my brain as I read the story.


137 posted on 10/05/2006 3:15:40 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: NinoFan

"Wrong. The page who he had cybersex with was not a page at the time, but had graduated from the page program the prior year."

Wrong. The disparate power relationship remains, the relationship began from employment and nowhere else.

I'd say we should read Congress' harassment guidelines...but I bet they are the last big organization in this country not to have any.


138 posted on 10/05/2006 3:15:42 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: mmyers

Just their word? Hey, it worked for Juanita Broderick, right?


139 posted on 10/05/2006 3:15:50 PM PDT by Paradox (American Conservatives: Keeping the world safe for Liberalism.)
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To: mmyers

ABC and Ross are just moving on, as if they hadn't done anything wrong in their previous reporting on this story.

I'm not saying these new stories didn't happen; it's already been established that Foley is perv. The point is, these stories have nothing to do with anyone but Foley, who has already resigned and is facing an investigation and possibly punishment.

These new reports don't make any mention of reporting the incidents to anyone in authority, so they add nothing to the current debate.

IOW, they're pretty much a waste of ink.


140 posted on 10/05/2006 3:15:53 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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