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.
Nice catch. :)
OK, fine, I give up. You're right. The GOP will gain seats in both the House and Senate. Maybe the Dems will just give up and die.
Was there any sex involved -- I mean did Foley diddle any of these youngsters -- or is this all about emails and instant messages?
The rapid reaction and very sudden appearance of the three right after the Drudge Story broke makes the whole 'story' stink to high heaven.
I really think it's time for the Repubs to release info about the Dem scandals.
BTTT
"Oh do spare us, "the disparate power relationship". Cry us a river."
Actually I'm not crying but getting some laughs. Not you but the bots who days ago were ranting about Foley being gay, etc. are now trying to minimize, fantasizing left wing conspiracies to label all REpubs as Foley supporters, etc.
Don't know where this change came from. Maybe it's something Limbaugh said today and we're hearing the dittoheads converse between themselves.
Good question. Is he claiming that the current "new" claims aren't pranks, or that the recently-uncovered "hand creme" IMs are "no prank?"
IMO it's deliberately written to sound deceptive and ambiguous.
Spinning I tell you...dizzy and going in circles.
You should hear Mark Levin- he's apoplectic..really furious that ABC considers the pornographic stuff "news"..
BWAHAAAAAAAAA!!!
Yup.
...apparently.
I doubt it. Two were from different classes (1998, 2000). Maybe the 2002 page knew Edmunds, but then again, ABC has been sure to provide no details etc. ABC is trying to cover-up.
I saw that interview too, and I agree with your assessment--very good point. If he got unsolicited pervy IMs from a "stranger," why wouldn't he just block that user from being able to contact him? That is standard practice to avoid unwanted IMs.
You think that maybe ABC had these guys in the background all along, waiting to pop them on us a little more closer to election day (only to be forced to use them now thanks to Drudge)?
Even better. We were wondering earlier about the timing being strange, but how in the bloody world could those pages speak for the "prank" story? Well, unless he was talking to Jason, I guess that's possible.
Oh, and another thing, by virtue of what Ross wrote, those pages HAD to have spoken to him after 3:00PM Eastern, which was well after Hastert informed us of the Hotline and asked for information in the investigation.
This is a head fake by our government with the media in full complicity. A band of primitive Arabs are holding an entire world hostage.
Our people have failed in government. It's not the government's fault... we as Americans have sent the worst of our populace to Washington. Washington and every capital city in the glorious 50 states have been infested by used car salesmen.
I think he obviously means that the new claims aren't pranks.
What they said means nothing without proof. It looks like ABC is CBSing us.
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