Posted on 10/03/2006 11:02:07 AM PDT by slowhand520
New Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote October 03, 2006 1:22 PM
Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer Report:
Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in 2003 to engage in Internet sex with a high school student who had served as a congressional page, according to new Internet instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages.
ABC News now has obtained 52 separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys under the age of 18.
This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., according to the message time stamp.
THE BLOTTER RECOMMENDS READER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED: Foley's Exchange with Underage Page Internet Messages Show Foley Sought to Rendezvous with Page Click Here for More of the Brian Ross Home Page Maf54: I miss you Teen: ya me too Maf54: we are still voting Maf54: you miss me too
The exchange continues in which Foley and the teen both appear to describe having sexual orgasms.
Maf54: ok..i better go vote..did you know you would have this effect on me Teen: lol I guessed Teen: ya go vote…I don't want to keep you from doing our job Maf54: can I have a good kiss goodnight Teen: :-* Teen:
The House voted that evening on HR 1559, Emergency War Time supplemental appropriations.
According to another message, Foley also invites the teen and a friend to come to his house near Capitol Hill so they can drink alcohol.
Teen: are you going to be in town over the veterans day weekend Maf54: I may be now that your coming Maf54: who you coming to visit Teen: haha good stuff Teen: umm no one really
Maf54: we will be adjourned ny then Teen: oh good Maf54: by Maf54: then we can have a few drinks Maf54: lol Teen: yes yes ;-) Maf54: your not old enough to drink Teen: shhh… Maf54: ok Teen: that's not what my ID says Teen: lol Maf54: ok Teen: I probably shouldn't be telling you that huh Maf54: we may need to drink at my house so we don't get busted
Read an exclusive excerpt of the actual instant message exchange.
yes, but the flipside argument there is - should Foley have been profiled because he was known to be gay? now, you can say "yes" to that, but at least acknowledge that's what you are advocating Hastert should have done.
Perhaps Hastert demanded he resign when they felt like the e-mail incident alone was a liability. ABC is reporting on the new IM sessions as if they are just now being revealed to them by former pages. Would Foley resign last Friday based on what is just surfacing today? Perhaps, if he was actively being blackmailed.
Monica was a college graduate. She wasn't 18.
Yes. I had forgotten Brock. He is bound to run in the same circles. Barney Frank......is he that low. I sort of think he might be smart enough to stay out of it. I wish some friend of Foley, a congressman, would contact Foley and see if he will give some information as to who and where these exposes' might have emminated from.I am sure Foley feels like he hasn't a friend in the world. He obviously was not discrete, but he wasn't in our face. I did not know he was homosexual. Whenever I heard him speak he sounded like a strong conservative. There needs to come a time when Foley, the person, needs to be considered, instead of Foley the pedophile. I am sure if my children had been approached like that I would not feel that charitable. Hell, even Clinton, in the aftermath of Monica revealed and clintons' admission, even clinton had some people who stood up for him even when it was indefensible.
Did you sign up today just to talk about this? Just curious.
I have looked since this weekend...guess he wont be coming back, the perv.
It was the last minute revelations about Bush's DUI and the way that he handled it that prompted me to vote for him in 2004 instead of third party as I'd planned.
This could be motivation for some people to vote AGAINST the Democrats this election.
Foley may be slime but the Democrats are still a lower form of creature than that.
Defending Foley makes people insane.
What I was talking about was the actual messages we are seeing. They look suspicious just like they appear in the IM box -- and my logs do not look like that.
Boy, she has been a busy lady. (No offense to real ladies)
Obviously, yes, especially once the first creepy emails were complained about.
There is a strong link between homosexuality and ephebophilia/pederasty.
A straight guy sending creepy emails should also be looked into, but yes, the fact that Foley is gay should be a contributing factor. After all, that means he is a pervert just to start off with.
Didn't x42 and knees monica have telephone sex? Were'nt the Israelis listening in on the phone sex, at that time? Is phone sex and internet sex different?
ABC confronted Foley with the emails; thus we had the first statement, that it was in response to a request for a recommendation.
Ross posts the emails on his web site and he starts getting IMs (so he says).
He calls Foley back and reads him the IMs over the phone; Foley resigns an hour later. I don't think Hastert was involved in any of that part.
I don't think they had sex with a telephone...I believe it was a cigar.
ABC called him and read the IMs to him. Foley resigned just an hour afterward. That's not the action of an innocent man.
All true. But if the FBI is going to try to prosecute him based on the IM's...well....they can't prove he wrote them.
Not only did Studds refuse to step down from the house, but the democRATS cheered him for his steadfastness "in serving" his country.
That was his myspace page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=43489677
OMG! Who is that guy Tom? Was he one of the victims?!?!?
In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.
Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.
In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank (news, bio, voting record), also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.
What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him -- a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."
In 2001, President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)
You get the idea. Democrats not only seem OK with the kind of behavior for which Foley is charged, but also they protect and excuse it. Only when it's a Republican do they proclaim themselves shocked -- shocked! -- when it comes to light.
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