Posted on 10/09/2006 9:58:22 PM PDT by DaveTesla
A leftist group with strong ties to the Democratic Party and to radical billionaire George Soros may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice in the Foley case. FBI investigators have accused the group CREW of concealing evidence of Rep. Mark Foley’s sexual misconduct over a period of several months.
George Soros’ Open Society Institute contributed $100,000 to CREW in January 2006.
“CREW is little more than a front for George Soros’ Shadow Party,” charges David Horowitz. “CREW has been withholding this evidence for months, apparently in order to release it just before the election. It is well known that Soros keeps a tight rein on groups that he funds. He and his Shadow Party cannot evade responsibility for CREW’s actions.”
The Shadow Party is a network of private political groups, organized and led by George Soros, which exerts a powerful but hidden influence over the Democratic Party, according to Horowitz.
The workings of this network are described in the newly-released New York Times bestseller THE SHADOW PARTY: HOW GEORGE SOROS, HILLARY CLINTON AND SIXTIES RADICALS SIEZED CONTROL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, by David Horowitz and Richard Poe (Thomas Nelson, 2006).
At a press conference on Monday, October 2, CREW announced that it had been holding incriminating e-mails revealing Foley’s sexual misconduct since at least July 2006. CREW said it turned these e-mails over to the FBI in July, but the FBI failed to act.
The FBI counters that CREW provided only edited versions of the e-mails, and refused to surrender the unedited originals. Investigators say that CREW refuses to divulge where it got the e-mails, and may have been holding them since at least April 2006 – months before CREW alerted the FBI of their existence.
In response, CREW has accused the FBI of lying, thus pitting George Soros’ Shadow Party against America’s top federal law enforcement agency, in a head-on confrontation.
THANK YOU!!!! I hate it when I can't remember a name. Now I won't be up tonight trying to remember.
No, it wouldn't be. If there was no criminal conduct alluded to in the enails, then there's no legal basis for a subpoena. They have to have a case first. The FBI can't just subpoena somebody's private email on a fishing expedition.
I didn't watch that interview. I would like to read a transcript of it.
Thanks to you two as well! It's a good thing I wasn't answering "Clintonistas for $100" on Jeopardy!
You folks aren't getting it. CREW knew it wasn't a crime, and if they'd given the FBI the original emails or even copies of them, the FBI would have said, "Yeah, creepy, but no crime here. Move along folks, nothing to see." That's not what CREW wanted, so they gave the FBI something they couldn't actually act on - the edited versions. That allowed CREW and the rats to maintain the contact with the FBI over it and to keep it alive at the FBI so when they broke the story, the FBI would already be involved in investigating Foley or at least it would appear that way. To be able to have the media saying Foley and other GOPers were under investigation was a big bonus for them.
Most likely Patrick Fitzgerald will be appointed to run the investigation. This smells a lot like the Plame Game.
That Rogers or Roper guy - whatever his name is - was on O'Reilly tonight. He says he has a list of several other "gay" GOPers that he plans to release this week, and that it's going to be very interesting. The guy is a self-appointed homo who thinks it's his right and duty to go around "outing" anybody and everybody who is in the closet.
Yep. The GOP are about the densest SOBs to ever come down the political pike. They fell for it hook, line and sinker.
later read
Just as troubling are concerns among some House Democrat staff that there are potential scandals lurking of a similar vein for them. According to another Democrat source, "I've been warning my people to stay away from this story because you just don't know what will come back to bite you."Of concern: that House Democrat leadership or Rep. Dale Kildee (Mich.), the Democrat member of the page board, who has served on it since 1985, or his staff have received complaints about Democrat colleagues' perceived inappropriate communications or contact with pages or former pages, and have not brought those complaints to the board or House management, such as the House Clerk's office. Kildee has been vocal about the Foley complaints not being brought before the full board prior to the scandal breaking, and the secretive nature of the Republican leadership's attempts to bring closure to the scandal.
"We all know this kind of scandal isn't just a Republican problem," says a Democrat political consultant in Washington. "We don't want to see what is out there about Democratic House members or former members."
But other Democrats say more is to come, that talk among Democrats around town is that researchers at CREW and the House Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee have in recent weeks been in contact, and that there are additional stories involving Republicans and questionable ethics behavior to be leaked closer to election time.
Of course, Republicans seldom take the advantage.
I think you mean Sidney Blumenthal, AKA: Sid Vicious.
Sloan: "Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director said today, "the FBI cannot have it both ways; either it failed to investigate the Foley emails because they did not rise to a level of criminal activity or because it did not have adequate information to do so. Pick one."
Why can't they have it both ways? Both ways makes sense - the FBI didn't have adequate information because the emails were redacted so the FBI couldn't determine if a crime had occurred.
She's attacking the FBI to try to cow them into backing off.
I saw it. Soros didn't come off well at all. imo.
The rats dance circles around the dull, slow GOP everytime in these matters.
Actually, Gatewaypundit is just linking to the original author/blogger Stefan Sharkanski of Sound Politics blog who broke the story.
< sarcasm >Strange, the Seattle media for some reason are refusing to report on this in contrast to their widespread coverage of Cantwells Republican opponents revealing of a decade+ old DUI..... < /sarcasm >
Well if CREW was hinting at the FBI that there was a crime when they jolly well knew there wasn't, that should bring some blowback.
File this under "People In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones."
I think you would do very good on Jeopardy.
Who would remember a jerk like Blumenthal?
So far, there is NO evidence of ANY crime because none of these pages were under the age of consent in DC, maybe something will be shown later, but ao far, no crime.
Maria CANTWELL IS SUCH A JOKE AS A SENATOR.....she had a BOYFRIEND?
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