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Three More Former Pages Accuse Foley of Online Sexual Approaches
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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: Shermy
His conduct with inferiors would get him automatically fired if Congress were run like an average American corporation.

First, it's not run like any other institution. They exempt themselves. Second, there is no proof of any of this. The only Jordan IMs were with an adult male (over 18) who was a former page. The messages with the 16-year-old were not actionable per the FBI. Ross clumsily intermixed in a deliberate attempt to mislead people about the timeline and that it was one page, not two different ones, who were being emailed (page 2, legal) or IMed (page 1, also legal because over 18 at time of cybersex)

Now we have three anonymous accusers of unknown motive or party affiliation or even proof they exist outside Brian Ross' fevered imagination, and these three new accusers are all saying they must remain anonymous but they weren't pranking and they were underage. But there is no proof. They won't face Foley to accuse him.

I think Brian Ross is inventing these new accusers out of thin air. We can already prove he has fabricated everything he has accused Foley and the GOP of so far.

Ross and ABC are running out of lies. Time to hound them into their graves after suing them into oblvion for libel and slander.
181 posted on 10/05/2006 3:27:19 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: soccer8
If Foley was doing this stuff in 1998 then Clinton needs a subpoena to determine what he knew about Foley and when he knew.
182 posted on 10/05/2006 3:28:51 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: edzo4

LOL!


183 posted on 10/05/2006 3:29:17 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Howlin
I wonder if ABC have been receiving any emails from past pages about Democratic Congress people.

Probably not, IMO. My theory is that Foley's only crime is perving while Republican. I cite Studds and Frank as evidence to back up my theory.
184 posted on 10/05/2006 3:29:34 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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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.


oh, that's reliable. an anonymous tip over the internet.
185 posted on 10/05/2006 3:29:45 PM PDT by smonk
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To: George W. Bush
Seems Michelle Malkin is believing anything that ABC/Brian Ross writes. She's usually right on. Wonder what's up with this?
186 posted on 10/05/2006 3:31:04 PM PDT by vadkins
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To: madprof98
YOU are assuming that other Congressmen knew about these sleazy IMs and that has not been proven. They are swarming Hastert to get anything close to an admission of this, but they are fishing. From Drudge's report today I could surmise that at least one boy thought it was a joke, a rite of passage to get "hit" on via IM by Foley. That was wrong. He was preying on pages in an even more disgusting way than clintoon hit on interns. This story is over......Foley is exposed and out, to keep leaking this to the media is possibly "outing" these young men -- something the dem base will not like.

If the dems think the voting base of the conservatives is so wussy that they will run from the Republican party or national security because of this they are really desperate.
187 posted on 10/05/2006 3:31:12 PM PDT by tioga
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To: smonk

Prostitution is a far more respectable occupation than journalism in today's world.


188 posted on 10/05/2006 3:31:13 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: Howlin
How would the three pages he talked to today know whether or not those IMs were pranks or not.

Bingo.

These pages were fed talking points. I don't know who coached them from the Dem aisle, but using the word "prank" hours after a Drudge story the MSM itself had NOT reported on is a dead giveaway. Unless they can prove these pages are linked to Drudge's site 24/7 they've just torpedoed this new story they put out. They are idiots.

Thank you for the poll update. So I guess they have been getting justifiably hit for reporting that nonsense then.

189 posted on 10/05/2006 3:31:32 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: George W. Bush
"also legal because over 18 at time of cybersex)"

If I'm not mistaken, the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban against Internet sex talk with minors, unless an actual rendezvous is planned and there is intent on carrying it out. The talk itself, if it is just titillating, is not a crime. So the page could have been 13 and it would have been legal, if there was no talk of meeting for actual sex.
190 posted on 10/05/2006 3:31:57 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: valkyrieanne

"These pages were not his "inferiors." The Louisiana person who was sixteen at the time (subject of relatively innocuous e-mails) never worked for Foley,"

So what?

"and Foley did not send him e-mails until after the Louisiana teenager stopped being a page and returned to his home state. Notice in the story that the unnamed seventeen-year old (at the time) page says that Foley contacted him after he returned to his (unnamed) home state."

Foley was a US Congressman, not a state official.

Think on this: you're young and you summer intern for General Motors. After you leave one of the board of directors contacts you like Foley was doing. And on a GM computer? Sexual harassment on GM's dime.


191 posted on 10/05/2006 3:32:36 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: mmyers
These are verbal accounts only? No actual e-mails to examine?

BTW, why fail to mention what state the seventeen-year old came from? Could it be because the age of consent in that state is ... drumroll... seventeen?

192 posted on 10/05/2006 3:32:47 PM PDT by valkyrieanne
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To: soccer8

CBS never gives up.


193 posted on 10/05/2006 3:32:59 PM PDT by ColdSteelRing
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To: rightinthemiddle

Anyone can come forward at this point. How many gays are Democrat and wouldn't mind throwing a monkeywrench into the election?


194 posted on 10/05/2006 3:33:32 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Never Forget)
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To: Shermy
Think on this: you're young and you summer intern for General Motors. After you leave one of the board of directors contacts you like Foley was doing. And on a GM computer? Sexual harassment on GM's dime.

So what indeed. The sexual harassment laws are out of control.

How do you know what computer(s) Foley used, btw?

195 posted on 10/05/2006 3:34:18 PM PDT by valkyrieanne
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To: mmyers
None wanted their names used because of the sensitive nature of the communications.

Why?. More crap.

196 posted on 10/05/2006 3:34:21 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Steve_Seattle

And the guy involved was an adult...Foley was wrong, but give it up. They didn't mind when Clinton actually DID an intern not much older than this page. But some dirty talk is suddenly the crime of the century? Please. That giant clicking sound you're hearing are Americans tuning out the hysterical and partisan overreach on this by the Democrats and their media puppeteers.


197 posted on 10/05/2006 3:34:27 PM PDT by MikeA (Foley has resigned. Bin Laden has not. That is what 's at stake in this election, not some pervert.)
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To: Shermy

Just because we think Foley is a creep doesn't mean we all have to lay down and let the macacas do anything they want. It doesn't mean we don't fight back. It doesn't mean we don't expose their lies.


198 posted on 10/05/2006 3:35:02 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small.)
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To: edzo4

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


Dang, look at that keyboard. Dan's finally mastered Wordstar on C/PM-80.
199 posted on 10/05/2006 3:35:15 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: mmyers

Foley is despicable and no excuses are possible.

More revolting things will probably come out and the GOP is well rid of him.

These 16 years old young men are not blameless, but the real blame always lies with the adult in position of authority. No excuses.


200 posted on 10/05/2006 3:35:19 PM PDT by Cincinna (HILLARY & HER HINO WANT TO TAKE OVER YOUR COUNTRY !)
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