Posted on 12/09/2006 3:42:24 PM PST by indianrightwinger
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, had heard of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a former male page a year before they became public, a campaign committee aide told CNN.
Foley, a Republican, resigned after the scandal broke. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans have suggested repeatedly that some Democrats knew about the e-mails earlier than they have acknowledged, but waited till midterm elections approached to bring up the issue.
Emanuel's campaign committee aide said Friday that the Illinois Democrat was informed in 2005, but never saw the correspondence and did not have enough information to raise concerns. The aide said Emanuel took "no action" because his knowledge was "cursory" and little more than "rumor."
The aide's acknowledgement differs from the flat "no" Emanuel gave in October when asked -- during an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" -- if he or anyone on his staff knew of the e-mails before the scandal broke.
The e-mails surfaced when House Democratic staffer Matt Miller sent a copy of them to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's communications director, Bill Burton, in fall 2005, according to an investigative report released Friday. (Watch what the House ethics committee found in its probe of Mark Foley's e-mails Video)
Burton told Emanuel about the e-mails but did not tell reporters, the aide said.
In his deposition to the ethics committee, Miller said he also sent Foley's e-mails to the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, the Miami Herald and Roll Call, according to the report. (Read the full report -- PDF)
Miller also sent the material to Harper's Magazine "and possibly others," the report said.
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Rahm was probably mad he didn't get any emails from Foley.
BUMP! PING!
OK. Who's suprised? Someone...anyone?
I'm shocked, shocked that there's politics in politics.
Since everybody else in DC knew about it, only a moron would have believed the democrats didn't know about it.
Well, of course he heard of them. How do you think they got leaked on the eve of the election?
Was this the old story we were following - Ping!?
Rush talked about this when it first came out - it's old news! Move along, folks, keep moving ...
Too late. The election is over. They won it and now they don't care what comes out. This is old fashioned politics at its more political.
BUMP!
One can only hope that the Pubbies learn something about politics from this.
Was this the old story we were following - Ping!?
And the Democrats gave the story to the liberal media just one month before the elections.
Rahm was made he didn't get a "Thank you".
And you know what? If they didn't, they would have had their license to contest elections suspended. The Dems used this stupid story for pure partisan political benefit, but we should have (1) seen this coming and (2) had an attack of our own in the wings.
You don't win elections by claiming your opponent outsmarted you. That's what the Dems did here.
To connect the dots, goto:
Democrats control 95% of the media. We have nothing compared to that.
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