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.
This time I'm sure ABC will be sure to leave off the source so that no one will do the fact checking they 'fail' to do...that is IF these statements are even true.
I'm not saying Foley wasn't. But ABC is trying to get the focus off of the who knew what when angle that is quickly becoming big and back onto the Republicans are all preditors angle.
I call BS. Do the "victims" have any proof? I doubt it. It's time for the Repubs to play hardball. We need to figure out who these "victims" are and find out what their angle is.
Wow. This is all so frightening that the media will deliver stuff like this to the masses w/out any proof. The media is unfreakinbelievable. I will NEVER believe a word they say. The media is the anti-christ or form of it!
What now? These former pages need to come forward to the FBI's investigation. Not just ABC news.
And who was the Speaker of the House in those years? Dig him up and let's fire him, too!
I wonder when the media is going to start calling out ABC on the drip drip drip way they are doing this. IT see unprofesional to me.
Actually, I spoke to one former (male) page who said that Brian Ross had sex with him in the back seat of Ross' car in New York City when the page was 17, but he really didn't want his name used, so I can't tell it to you. But trust me, I wouldn't say such a thing on the Internet unless it were completely, 100% true...
CNN.com has a statement from the family of the page who got the e-mails. The family says they did not know of the IM's.
Huh? The initial poster has been here longer than you.
The "Key Identifying Feature" of a troll is that they signed up recently.
Not sure I believe anything a homosexual says about sex ~ they all want to talk about their rectums for one thing.
And you know that the leadership knew how?
Please explain DNC basement rat.
We saw no ages listed, so that's pretty indicative they were, eh?
But....if they go back to the Republicans are predators, and in this case, Foley was a homosexual predator, then they are emphasizing an angle of the story that the gay community won't like, the stereotype of predatory gay men.
Soon...an in-depth interview with a shadow with an electronic voice.
If this information were true, I think one or more of these pages would have complained to whoever runs the page program.
To my knowledge, no crime.
Foley was clearly sick, and we was shoved out soon as the GOP knew of it.
But the questions are now what did the Dems know, what did the MSM know, when did they know and the fact ABC LIED about the first IM exchange and even the age of the individual.
That makes everything they say now suspect.
They can publish 1001 accounts and I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Could be true, could not. That's the position ABC has put itself into now. I'll wait till our side checks everything they state throughly before giving up a damn thing.
Politically, I don't think it matters how many "victims" ABC puts on parade now. The first "revelation" was obviously done in cooperation with someone on the Rat side. ABC is exposed as part of a Rat smear operation. Anything more will just increase the fury of the base when it all comes out -- hardly what the Rats wanted.
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