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.
You're getting the two confused. The parents of the young man, who was 17, and no longer in the Page program, who was getting E-MAILS from Foley knew that it WAS NOT sexual, it was just seemed creepy to the boy and to them, and they wanted it stopped.
I don't know anything about the boys who were receiving the Instant Messages (NOT the e-mails) which WERE of a sexual nature, except I keep seeing that he was 16 at the time he was getting the IMs, and that was back in 2003. The IMs are the ones that Hastert did NOT know about. He did know about the e-mails, and the media keeps blurring the two situations to make it look bad for Hastert and the Republican leadership.
Foley is disgrace and any Democrat or Republican who knew that he was communicating with young boys should resign because they are an embarrassment to the country.
This is like watching a train wreck. I want to look away, but.... No that isn't right, it is a tangled up mess. Between Soros and this gay group outing Republicans and Foley and the utter lack of morality of Demonrats in general.
I wish it was just as simple as Foley being a pervert. But, it appears it is Foley being a pervert and Demonrats knowing but holding on to the information for maximum damage. I don't know which is worse and don't care I think they should all seek treatment. Unfortunately it looks like no one will serve jail time.
If the Republicans in congress were smart they would have thrown Foley to the wolves the second they learned he was contacting these boys. They were not smart and now they are going to lose the house because of this. One would think that politicians would finally figure out that coverups always make the situation much worse than it was.
I don't know anything about the boys who were receiving the Instant Messages ."
Trust me- you don't want to know.
I agree- the media is purposefully conflating everything into one jumbled mess.
They are not distinguishing between e mails and IMs.
They are not distinguishing between what seems to be an unsolicitated and perhaps inappropriate e mail to a page asking for a picture
and the more lewd and consensual IM exchanges between Foley and his very sexual young man.
Would you just get over yourself? NO ONE is suggesting that Mark Foley get off scott free. Everyone has said that he should have resigned because what he did was WRONG, even though it may not have been illegal.
Hastert called for the investigation to find out if any laws have been broken. That was BEFORE the information about the Internet Sex during the House vote story broke. Hastert not only wanted to know about the IMs, he wanted to know who had released them to ABC, and he asked the AG to find out.
It doesn't matter to the MSMS: Fake, but accurate.
No doubt about that. I have no sympathy for Foley. Foley Fag from Florida is fine for me. But this campaign from 2003 suddenly showing now is what has no credibility and needs to be challenged since these allegations are entirely and completely untested publicly.
I mean, who saves random conversations from 2003????!!!!? Where these like the most important IM's in some kids life and he had to save them like Monica saved the dress? That is just insanely suspicious.
I guess the media only gives the people what they want us to know! They are kind of selective with their 'news' according to their agenda (which they claim they don't have).
I missed it.
He should be in jail for "words"? If so, every citizen demanding the President be assassinated should also be in jail, right? Should Henry Reid be in jail for "killing the Patriot Act"?
How far do you wanna go with this line of thinking?
Should posters on FR be jailed for calling certain Democrats... NAMES? Posting icky pictures?
Again, beware the slippery slope.
The Dems have been sitting on this one for a long time.
"Studds, GOT RE-ELECTED - TWICE!!!!"
Five times.
Look - email comes onto email servers and into users' accounts at all moments of the day. At some point(s) during any given 24 hours, a backup is made of the system (most don't use continuous backup). It is (usually) a snapshot in time. If the user stores their copy of the emails on the server, their entire email account will be backed up by the ISP, day after day. The backup medium is stored for some period of time, after which it is reused and overwriten.
So yes, there is a period of time during which the media is cycling thru the backup rotation scheme where multiple days or weeks of data are available.
"If the Republicans in congress were smart they would have thrown Foley to the wolves the second they learned he was contacting these boys. They were not smart and now they are going to lose the house because of this. One would think that politicians would finally figure out that coverups always make the situation much worse than it was."
You sure sound like a seminar poster. (And it doesn't help that you signed up in April of this year.)
If the GOP had chased Foley out for having written an innocuous email the scandal would be that they are "homophobes."
Go back and get better talking points.
All of us should. Our country and world would probably be in different and much better shape today if he had paid attention to what he was elected to do and not been distracted. Indifference could destroy our nation yet.
"soliciting sex with underage boys is a crime.
Having sex with minors is a crime.
providing alcohol to minors is a crime.
Sodomy alone is still a crime in most places.
Being this sick, twisted and stupid should be a crime..."
As far as we know Foley did none of those things.
So what is your point exactly? Except to spread disinformation.
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