Posted on 10/04/2006 5:12:16 PM PDT by jrooney
A posting of an unredacted instant message sessions between Rep. Mark Foley and a former congressional page has apparently exposed the identity of the now 21 year-old accuser...
ABC RELEASED TRANSCRIPT OF ONE CHAT BETWEEN FOLEY AND A MAN WHO WAS 18 AT THE TIME OF THE INSTANT MESSAGE EXCHANGE.... NETWORK STATED THE MESSAGE WAS TO 'UNDER AGE' TEEN... DEVELOPING...
ABC ONLINE GLITCH LEADS TO IDENTITY OF FOLEY ACCUSER; FEATURED IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
What does "technically legal" mean? In DC, the kid was "technically legal" when he was 16. But is it only "technically legal", or is it simply "legal"? Can an illegal act be "technically legal"?
Brian dismisses that like it's meaningless, but it's the difference between "here's a possible crime", and "here's us outing a gay republican having consensual IM message sex with another adult."
I wonder if anyone has asked the 18yr old if the im's are his? Since he is working in the oklahoma gov race, should be easy to e-mail him? Wouldn't it be great if he denied they were his im's, that someone has committed id theft???
I don't know how his IM's would have gotten out unless he released them. Saved IM chats are not like e-mail. They're saved on one's own hard drive...like a text file. Either someone had access to his harddrive and copied the files or he released them. I suppose he could have released them but not agreed to them being published. I dunno...my eyes are starting to cross about now.
Invasion of his privacy and causing massive emotional and career damage.
No, but I didn't check there. Don't trust AP.
They (RATS and ABC) are co-conspirators.
But are these IMs "soliciting sex"? I would think that means asking teens to have sex with you, having found them on the internet. Not using your e-mail to write to people you know.
By that rule, you could get married in DC at age 16, and if you sent your wife an e-mail saying "can we do it tonight"? you could be arrested.....
Why save them in the first place? It could be for "posterity" but I bet he was looking forward to having those in case he needed something from a Congressman sometime in the future, like, say, a job as campaign manager for a Republican candidate?
Shit!! Did I misspell it, earliear!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
I NEVER!!!!! saw THAT picture!!!
That is just TOO funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well then I will wait to see what Limbaugh has to say then
Yes, he was an adult.
And there are all kind of sleeper freepers coming out of the wood work, saying it doesn't matter, or whatever.
bttt
Thanks anyways oh by the way great job on the Levin thread was great as always
I'm inclined to think that's what happened: Jordan shared them with a "friend" who recognized the political "value" and acted accordingly. Or he tried to blackmail Foley and things went awry.
Either way obviously ABC thought they had the obligation to protect his identity, so they did remove his sn---but only after it first briefly appeared on the internet (and was captured by watchful eyes).
Yes, he potentially will receive a bunch 'o money from ABC. I don't mind at all ABC having to fork over millions for their shoddy work.
what is the michelle malkin thing, I haven't heard?
This is just great. Here we have destoryed a man's career and almost the leadership of the GOP on a misrepresentation of the facts. Just like Bush's Air National Gaurd records this is "Fake but Accurate." Disgusting.
Foley is guilty of being gay and not owning up to it. We forget that he served the House for 12 years and did a lot of good and was a tireless spokesman for the WOT. That being said, I don't condone what he did and he needs professional help which I hope he is receiving. He did not need to be in Congress with his "issues."
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