[valkyrieanne]

Still a predator and dangerously stupid. His conduct with inferiors would get him automatically fired if Congress were run like an average American corporation. And the security breaches and blackmail potentials are very alarming.

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, 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.

IOW, they weren't pages when they were approached. They were former pages. Thus not "inferiors."

[Shermy]

"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.