Kirk Fordham, shown at a news conference on October 5, will testify he warned officials about former Rep. Mark Foley.
Kirk Fordham, shown at a news conference on October 5, will testify he warned officials about former Rep. Mark Foley.
Fordham to testify he warned about Foley
POSTED: 9:47 p.m. EDT, October 11, 2006
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An ex-congressional aide will tell a House ethics panel Thursday that he delivered warnings about former Rep. Mark Foley to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's top aide years ago.
Kirk Fordham, who once served as Foley's chief of staff, plans to testify under oath that he warned more than one congressional official several times about Foley's inappropriate behavior with pages and that the warnings came much earlier than Republican leaders have reported.
A source familiar with his account of events told CNN that Fordham will say he notified Scott Palmer, Hastert's chief of staff, three or four years ago about a report that Foley had shown up drunk at the dormitory that houses the teenage messengers.
CNN was told by two sources familiar with Fordham's account and a third, independent source that Fordham maintains he arranged a meeting between Foley and Palmer about that report and accounts of other behavior Fordham found troubling.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/11/foley.fallout/index.html?section=cnn_latest
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More and more this looks like what they tried to do to Rove in the Plame Game. Now the target is Hastert.
While "Harry Reid's $1,100,000 profit on land he did not own" is buried on page 7 along with, "Federal Deficit falls to its lowest in 4 years", a Denture ad, and a huge Palais Royal ad....
Hmmmmmm
Other than my new book deal.
"Mark Foley's former chief of staff Kirk Fordham will testify today before the house ethics committee. Fordham says he warned house speaker Dennis Hastert's staff three years ago of Foley's inappropriate conduct toward pages."
----- My first question for Mr. Fordham: "you say that you tattled on the man you were working for three years ago, then why -- why -- why did you continue to work for him and for his re-election after that?".
Fordham looks down and to the left as he prepares another lie.
Fordham looks like a heavier John Mark Karr!!
Why are Repubs shouldering all the blame?
What did Democrats know about Foley---and did Democrats withhold information to score political points?
Foley belonged to the close-knit Pink Powderpuff Club, and had a lot of "friends" up there on Capitol Hill. What kind of information were they sharing?
Specifically, what did Cong Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill) knew about Foley, and when did he know it? Rahm is Dem Cong Committee Chair.
As Dem Cong Committee Chair, did Rahm put young pages at risk, by holding back information to score political points?
It strains credulity to suggest Foley's activities were not known in small-town Washington where every "secret" is public knowledge and discussed 24/7.
Everybody knows who hangs out in "the club" bars and book stores on Dupont Circle.....that includes Democrat club members. Right Rahm?
The bizarre video episode seen on news segments where Foley is addressing Congressional pages is clearly Foley as predator, visibly "turned on" by youngsters. It was not the first time Foley "outed" himself in public view. He seemed to have had no problem flaunting it.
If Dem Cong Committee Chair Rahm Emanuel engaged in a cover-up about Foley for political purposes, he needs to be investigated, pronto.
Rahm's emails to Foley would be v-e-r-y interesting.
Did Fordham have any evidence like IMs or E-mails? Did Fordham say my former boss is a pedophile?
OMG He looks like John Mark Karr's big brother in that photo!
Wall Street ignores DNC/Rat's/Crew/$oreA$$ and pushes Dow to new highs.
Can somebody investigate if there are any straight men who have been pages?
It seems that the "recruiting" program seems to focus not at all on politics, but other...considerations.