Posted on 10/05/2006 2:45:06 PM PDT by mmyers
Three more former congressional pages have come forward to reveal what they call "sexual approaches" over the Internet from former Congressman Mark Foley.
The pages served in the classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002. They independently approached ABC News after the Foley resignation through the Brian Ross & the Investigative Team's tip line on ABCNews.com. None wanted their names used because of the sensitive nature of the communications.
"I was seventeen years old and just returned to [my home state] when Foley began to e-mail me, asking if I had ever seen my page roommates naked and how big their penises were," said the page in the 2002 class.
The former page also said Foley told him that if he happened to be in Washington, D.C., he could stay at Foley's home if he "would engage in oral sex" with Foley.
THE BLOTTER RECOMMENDS READER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED: Foley's Exchange with Underage Page Foley Instant Message Chat While Waiting for a House Vote Click Here to Watch This Week's Brian Ross Investigates Webcast The page told ABC News he was interviewed this week by FBI agents who had a six-page list of questions about Foley and the exchanges.
The second page who talked with ABC News, a graduate of the 2000 page class, says Foley actually visited the old page dorm and offered rides to events in his BMW.
"His e-mails developed into sexually explicit conversations, and he asked me for photographs of my erect penis," the former page said.
The page said Foley maintained e-mail contact with him even after he started college and arranged a sexual liaison after the page had turned 18.
The third page interviewed by ABC News, a graduate of the 1998 page class, said Foley's instant messages began while he was a senior in high school.
"Foley would say he was sitting in his boxers and ask what I was wearing," the page said.
"It became more weird, and I stopped responding," the page said.
All three pages described similar instant message and e-mail patterns, with remarkably similar escalations of provocative questions.
"He didn't want to talk about politics," the page said. "He wanted to talk about sex or my penis," the page said.
The three new verbal accounts are in addition to two sets of sexually explicit instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages.
An online story on the Drudge Report Thursday claimed one set of the sexually explicit instant messages obtained by ABC News was part of a "prank" on the part of the former page, who reportedly says he goaded the congressman into writing the messages.
"This was no prank," said one of the three former pages who talked to ABC News today about his experience with the congressman.
No, you said nothing of the kind . . . because I said nothing of the kind. I said that the leadership knew Foley was a textbook pervert--not that they knew about some particular examples of it. I think that was the gist of Robert Novak's comment about Reynolds that was posted earlier. Or is Novak a DU operative too?
No names? No evidence?
Why hasn't Hastert appointed an investigator who will follow every email, instant message, and other lead to wherever it needs to go? Is it true that Pelosi has vetoed Freeh?
Well, if Dan is typing these new IM's up make sure he remembers not to use a computer from 1990.
LOL! We should ask Ross if the 'pages' voices on the other end of the line sounded like a disgraced reporter looking for work!
Where have the IM's Been all this time????
Despite how sleazy Foley was in making these kinds of communications, no one has yet to allege he laid a finger on anyone. This has grown tiresome and I think only the voyeurs at ABC News and their hypocritical DemoCrite party allies are the only ones still entertained by this story. Most of the rest of normal America has better more important things to think about. This is now just becoming overreach. Foley's gone. Move on.
But you and Novak already knew and continue misrepresenting the facts.
Despite how sleazy Foley was in making these kinds of communications, no one has yet to allege he laid a finger on anyone. And anyone can come forward now for fame and political gain to claim they were hit on by Foley too. Leave it to ABC to report it without the least back up for their claims.
This has grown tiresome and I think only the voyeurs at ABC News and their hypocritical DemoCrite party allies are the only ones still entertained by this story. Most of the rest of normal America has better more important things to think about. This is now just becoming overreach. Foley's gone. Move on.
Despite how sleazy Foley was in making these kinds of communications, no one has yet to allege he laid a finger on anyone. And anyone can come forward now for fame and political gain to claim they were hit on by Foley too. Leave it to ABC to report it without the least back up for their claims.
This has grown tiresome and I think only the voyeurs at ABC News and their hypocritical DemoCrite party allies are the only ones still entertained by this story. Most of the rest of normal America has better more important things to think about. This is now just becoming overreach. Foley's gone. Move on.
Ok, did any of these three report Foley's behavior to the relevant authorities? Did ABC even ask?
Oh do spare us, "the disparate power relationship". Cry us a river.
Show me the money--we already have a "sexual pedophilia case" with no sex and no pedophilia hawked by a disreputable journo and a steamy IM that the "child", actually an dult< syas a prank and which cannot even be authenticated.
Anyonw who falls for this B>S. deserves Pelosi and Conyers.
LOL! And in Hi Def even......
I just was looking for you to pass on some information: on Brit's show neither he nor Major Garrett repeated that 30 to 50 seats claim.
As for this in this article:
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An online story on the Drudge Report Thursday claimed one set of the sexually explicit instant messages obtained by ABC News was part of a "prank" on the part of the former page, who reportedly says he goaded the congressman into writing the messages.
"This was no prank," said one of the three former pages who talked to ABC News today about his experience with the congressman.
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How would the three pages he talked to today know whether or not those IMs were pranks or not.
Where'd ABC find this new crop of pages? Under Edmund's chair? Why should I believe ANYTHING ABC barfs up?
These pages were not his "inferiors." The Louisiana person who was sixteen at the time (subject of relatively innocuous e-mails) never worked for Foley, and Foley did not send him e-mails until after the Louisiana teenager stopped being a page and returned to his home state.
Notice in the story that the unnamed seventeen-year old (at the time) page says that Foley contacted him after he returned to his (unnamed) home state.
IOW, they weren't pages when they were approached. They were former pages. Thus not "inferiors."
Perhaps there were five or six pages involved in this prank.
In Yahoo IM you can send a private message unless the recipient has specifically blocked unsolicited messages, and in my experience only a small percentage of people do that.
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