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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He kinda does look like a "hitman" doesn't he?
Cripes.
Yes, it is shocking, but then the dems have always been filty people. The fact that they allowed this to remain quiet while young pages were at risk shows you just how filthy they are.
The Dem Aide Worker sent them to every Dem and Lib paper .. but never notified the ethics panel ???
Yep .. it was a hitpiece, without a doubt
Odd..isn't it...that the Ethics Committee isn't filing any charges..or whatever they do...
SOOOOOO..they didn't find that the GOP leadership knew, and were involved in a cover up...
But, they DID know..that this made its way through the dem ranks...
They also know that Rahm said on the Stephy show..that he never "saw" them (e-mails)..tricky that guy..he didn't say he didn't know about them, though.
However no hand slap or anything for the people that did know, and didn't try to STOP it...just get it into NEWSPAPERS!!
I say get rid of the Ethics Committees...along with Emmanuel.
And the people in Florida who couldn't figure out how to vote for Foley's substitute candidate. What do we make of those republicans?
We knew this when it first happened. I'm not surprised at all.
Of course the Democrats would know about this. Who would a homosexual be homosexualing with in the first place
Admitting they (demoCommiecRATS and enemedia) created a pre election stunt instead of carrying out swift and judicious punishment?
What a shock to see CNN picking up a story I thought would never go further than foxnews.
Pelosi knew. She hip-pocketed the info.
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