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.
Why are the names of consenting **Adults** being withheld?!
Transcripts are not proof, either. Easily faked.
Now what?
What a MESS..
Wow, anonymous allegations without a shred of proof offered!
I'm sold.
Well, if ABC news SAYS it it must be true right? They wouldn't lie about something as simple as their ages...wait..Oops!
Well, of course, it's orchestrated. And maybe some of the stuff was a prank on the part of teens who got a thrill from making a Congressman look like a textbook-case pervert. But the thing is, this Congessman WAS a textbook-case pervert, and apparently many leaders in his party knew that and didn't much care about it, just so long as he could win elections.
What's going to happen? To listen to Rush and to read FReeRepublic, it's all going to come back to haunt the Democrats. To read National Review Online, it's going to destroy the Republican majority. I'm inclined to think the latter is more likely.
IBTZ
That's how I feel about this too.
sitting in his boxers and ask what I was wearing
That is an almost verbatim statement made by the first page. It's possible Foley said the same thing to this 'page'...but this looks like someone who's read the other stuff and using it (again) to try to cover ABC's butt.
One prank turns into hundreds of real encounters .. .If the GOP doesn't get out in front and call this like it is they desereve to lose in NOV.
So ABC is having to drop the big bombs prematurely? This scandal just isn't working out worth a damn for them. These claims would have had a much better impact about three days before the elections.
I want to see the explanation for these boys not turning Foley in when this happened.
The ABC spin will be: "The three are all adults, now."
What will remain unsaid: "They were all adults then, too."
What matters is how the blog "Stop Sexual Preditors" was initiated just to leak this story at this time, and who is behind saving up this info for this purpose? Foley did this, obviously. And thus it appears the Democrats exploited it, when they learned about it, months or even years ago. This is the Gingrich Cell Phone gambit all over again. Democrats are not very original, crude actually.
They are all over 18 now and could release their names if they really wanted to tell the truth because truth can only be obtained through scrutiny in this case.
I think Foley is a real low-life for being involved in this.
However, what civil crime has he committed? I don't know enough about these things. (thank God)
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