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Aide Says He Reported Foley 2 Years Ago
Yahooooo News ^ | 10/4/06

Posted on 10/04/2006 1:08:03 PM PDT by areafiftyone

WASHINGTON - A senior congressional aide said Wednesday that he alerted House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office two years ago about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage pages.

Kirk Fordham told The Associated Press that when he was told about Foley's inappropriate behavior toward pages, he had "more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene."

The conversations took place long before the e-mail scandal broke, Fordham said, and at least a year earlier than members of the House GOP leadership have acknowledged.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: foley; hastert
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To: deputac

NOPE! He did not post the name. I guess the nasty messages from the leftists and threats to send his name to the FBI got to him.


41 posted on 10/04/2006 1:19:58 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: dogbyte12

"This actually is potentially the worst thing out there. Period. 2 years ago there were warnings and nothing was done. That is inexcusable again if true."

This is getting worse, not better. I'm not real optimistic.


42 posted on 10/04/2006 1:20:41 PM PDT by Maine For Bush
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To: Jim Noble

Does Fordham, er, play for the other team?

I heard he was a catcher.


43 posted on 10/04/2006 1:20:46 PM PDT by listenhillary (Islam = Religion of peace. If you say otherwise, we'll kill you!)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

Thank you!! Fordham is in bed with the DEms.


44 posted on 10/04/2006 1:21:11 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: Suzy Quzy
Here's a thought , Fordham was Chief of Staff right? Maybe he knew Foley's password (s) and was sending the IM's himself!

Damn, this tinfoil hat is tight! ;o)

45 posted on 10/04/2006 1:22:04 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry ( The kinder we are to terrorists, the harsher we are to their potential victims.)
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To: areafiftyone

Show me the paper trail. If this were me or any person honestly concerned about children, I'd have emails and other memos to document that I'd reported it. I'd also have kept squealing until something was done. If he doesn't have corroboration, he's lying.


46 posted on 10/04/2006 1:22:51 PM PDT by old and tired (Run Swannie, run!)
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To: dogbyte12

What about the emails was actionable?

Medved just read them on his show and there
was nothing illegal about them.

Hastert and the leadership acted correctly in my view.


47 posted on 10/04/2006 1:23:04 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger


Right!


48 posted on 10/04/2006 1:23:53 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: areafiftyone

My money says that Fordham is a homo-dem mole...


49 posted on 10/04/2006 1:24:17 PM PDT by Antoninus (Attention GOP---Rule 4: See Rules 1 and 3. Rule 5: NO FOLEYS!)
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To: All

I just had a thought:

Is this now the groundwork to pretend the GOP leadership knew about the IMs (not emails)?

...now that the Dems' foreknowledge of those IMs is starting to be revealed.

Just thinking out loud.


50 posted on 10/04/2006 1:24:22 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: tiredoflaundry

I think these IM's have a Phoney smell about them also!! My friend said she had to spend $200.00 and have a computer geek to install something that would keep her step-daughters IM'S....otherwise they go to ETHER....they are NOT kept, so SOMEONE either KEPT these or CREATED these!!!


51 posted on 10/04/2006 1:24:22 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: areafiftyone

Dims are starting to ask themselves what that aroma is beginning to waft in. hehehehe


52 posted on 10/04/2006 1:24:22 PM PDT by 100-Fold_Return (Those who would bash Osteen/Warren would support HAMAS)
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To: Suzy Quzy
Matt is gay.

Are you guessing? or is it for real?

53 posted on 10/04/2006 1:24:35 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Antoninus

Bet you he sent the IM's to ABC


54 posted on 10/04/2006 1:24:44 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: rahbert

The Foley thing put GOP in damned-if-do, damned-if-don't bind. If Hastert had forced Foley out months or years ago, you would have heard "anti-gay witch hunt!" from the same libs and MSM types who are now slamming Hastert for NOT forcing Foley out. Liberals are such disgusting hypocrites.


55 posted on 10/04/2006 1:25:23 PM PDT by freedomdefender
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To: tiredoflaundry

I posted the same thing earlier! lol.


56 posted on 10/04/2006 1:25:27 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: areafiftyone

email or IMs??? THERE IS A DIFFERENCE AP.


57 posted on 10/04/2006 1:25:33 PM PDT by Perdogg (Democratic Party - The political wing of Al Qaida)
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To: areafiftyone

4CT should be 4 Eastern, he still has time.


58 posted on 10/04/2006 1:26:08 PM PDT by deputac (NYPD & FDNY: The Other Twin Towers of New York)
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To: jennyjenny

LOL! Great minds! ;-)


59 posted on 10/04/2006 1:26:12 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry ( The kinder we are to terrorists, the harsher we are to their potential victims.)
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To: Maine For Bush

What precisely was Hastert supposed to do? Fire Foley? B*-slap him?

You have to make an effort to save IM logs. This was not an accident. It's premeditated, even if Foley is sleazy. What is the difference between IMs and BJs? Why are IMs sex and BJs not?


60 posted on 10/04/2006 1:26:16 PM PDT by Jaded ("I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."- Joseph Ratzinger)
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