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.
Unless these pages TOLD the Congressional leaders that this was occurring, how on earth would they know? I've not seen any proof that Hastert or anyone else knew what this guy was doing. As far as I've read, the only knowledge that he was contacting former pages was in 2005 when the parents of the young man from Louisiana contacted Hastert and asked him to tell Foley to stop communicating with their son. Those contacts were NOT sexual, though it's likely that if the young man had continued the e-mails, it might have escalated to that.
Foley's seat was a 'safe' Republican seat, so they could possibly have had another candidate in that district. I guess we'll find out this year just how 'safe' it is, though I'm sure that's one reason the Democrats targeted Foley, and did so AFTER the deadline for a replacement candidate could get on the ballot, thinking that the scandal would keep Republicans home.
Who says he wasn't using a Verizon broadband card? In any event, your comparison to GM or any other company is absolutely irrelevant, because they have different rules.
The facts being what they are now, Foley did nothing illegal, whatsoever. However, with his drinking problem and strange sexual desires, it is probably best that he did resign.
You are being deliberately difficult, so it'll be interesting to see what your next argument is going to be.
SHEPPIE!
Just what do you think Speaker Hastert was doing this afternoon? And the day after the story broke, he wrote to the Attorney General to ask for a full investigation, both about Foley's activities, but also, to find out who had the texts of the Instant Messages and held onto them for several years in order to cause political damage to the Repubs. I'd call that, 'getting out in front of the situation'.
You could almost say "most Freeper". But I'll just say a lot. Since a lot of them can't even figure out what a pedophile is. Gee, our education system does stink.
Now dimwit shep smith is reporting these new allegations but he can't have the integrity to report the sexual IM involved an 18 year old and not a 16 one or that the im was a prank. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, he can't. I am so pissed I want to smash my keyboard over his partisan liberal head!
ABC News does not report it's own story.
But Shep Smith leads his newscast with it, crediting ABC News.
Up is down, Down is Up.
dang....Shep was really excited! He's creepy.
Shep is making me sick....still no report on this being a prank.....just 3 more pages come forward....I think Shep is jealous.
I'm not all that familiar with Yahoo IM's but have used AOL, AIM and Hotmail instant messaging to stay in contact with my son. With hotmail it all depends on how you have your privacy options set. If I wanted just anyone to be able to IM me I could allow Other.Net Mess under the privacy tab. Several years ago when I used AOL and AIM anyone on AOL could IM me without permission. Not sure about AOL these days but before I cancelled with them they had instituted similar types of controls that hotmail has.
There are alot of people who enjoy striking up conversations with people so they'll not use the privacy controls. They're willing to put up with the trolls, the bots and the sexual come-ons in order to meet other people.
Buh-bye, troll
Question to all the Freepers how long before US Freepers make ABC our new b***h????
You mean it hasn't already happened?
Now the little"panty boys"are coming out of the woodwork.O ne might think Foley was a catholic priest!
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