Soros and Foley. (Soros’ Shadow Party against F.B.I.)

frontpagemag.com ^ | Monday, October 09, 2006 | David Horowitz

[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.

[ozoneliar]

Somehow I doubt there will be any showdown.

[Cindy]

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[STARWISE]

[sageb1]

[LegalEagle61]

Not surprising news is it?

[Prokopton]

accused the group CREW of concealing evidence of Rep. Mark Foley’s sexual misconduct

I still don't know what the "sexual misconduct" was. All I've heard about is homosexual relations between consenting adults. Not only is this not illegal it is highly approved of by Democrats and, apparently, many Republicans.

[STARWISE]

Hardly ... their network must be comprised of a few thousand
Rat ghouls in DC alone.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Bump -- who will bump this to the top until morning??

[Free Vulcan]

"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." Cool, raw meat thrown to the pit bull.

[catbertz]

Maybe this is why the page secured a criminal defense attorney? Holding on to IM's for 2+ yrs..

[DaveTesla]

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[NutCrackerBoy]

CREW is clearly involved so how do left-wing bloggers get away with ridiculing Hastert, Limbaugh, et al for alluding to dirty tricks by Soros group? What am I missing?

[HiTech RedNeck]

The FBI counters that CREW provided only edited versions of the e-mails, and refused to surrender the unedited originals.

O-tay, but shouldn't that have been enough to allow them to subpoena the originals?

[montag813]

Why is this HUGH story remaining so hidden?

[DaveTesla]

"but shouldn't that have been enough to allow them to subpoena the originals?"

I doubt they had evidence of any crime.

Hard to get a subpoena with out it.

[DaveTesla]

Because it is an embarrassment to Republicans

and a botched job by the demonrats.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But the full records weren't any more telling of a "crime." This discussion is conflating what is illegal and what is unethical.

[DaveTesla]

Unethical and morally wrong? Yes.
Foley did the right thing by resigning.

Illegal? I have yet to see evidence of that yet.
Just being made to look that way.

[HiTech RedNeck]

"FBI investigators have accused the group CREW of concealing evidence of Rep. Mark Foley’s sexual misconduct over a period of several months."

So when does this become illegal rather than simply creepy politics. If CREW did not lie to FBI, if there was no statutory crime committed by Foley, and if CREW was not subject to any court order to reveal what it knew, how can it have committed any crime itself?