The GOP leadership didn't know anything about Foley's explicit IMs. Without any proof, they could not do anything about suspicions.
Let's review a little about what we now know.
First, everyone involved in this "outing" are gay, including the Republican staffers and the young man.
The young man knew Foley was gay when he took the job.
The young man was himself, openly gay when he took the job and already frequenting the gay scene.(from another Page in the same class)
The young man bills himself as a political operative and has been caught acting as a mole at a Republican fund raiser.
The kid descibes himself as the most insensative (sic)(the kid can't spell and has poor grammar)guy that you will ever meet.
The kid bragged at his fraternity about having the copies of the IMS. He thought he was very clever, not victimized at all.
The rabid gay activist flew the kid out to get a look at the evidence and talk to him, sometime before he put the plan in place (last spring?)
The young man has hired or someone else has hired a big time DEMOCRAT defense lawyer. (chances are this kid was an affirmative action student and hire and does not have the money to pay for this kind of lawyer).
The kid dropped out of school and is working in OK for the Istook campaign, where he was caught working as mole for Istook in the primary. The kid's model must be Chris Lehane.
I hadn't heard this part yet. Very interesting. Do you have a link on this?
TIA
Sounds very similar to the defense put forward by Catholic Bishops when confronted about suspicions of homosexual priest abuse. Let's be clear: there was an obligation not to just await further proof but to investigate. Big difference.
All the rest of your points are about victims, their alleged handlers, their possible motives, sexuality. If the victims were under 18 YO, none of this matters.
The question remains, what did the GOP leadership know, when, and what did they do about it.
We'll see what the FBI investigation brings...