GOP Foley Page Scandal First Broke on four week old Weblog

by **dugoboy** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:53 pm

comment: the power of the internets. DailyKOS diary: <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/30/205342/728" target="top">Foley Page Scandal First Broke on Independent Weblog</a> "I have been away for a while," wrote the pseudonymous blogger on the four week old weblog <a href="http://stopsexpredators.blogspot.com/" target="top">Stop Sex Predators</a>, "so please accept my apologies for the lack of blog posts." His apology was unnecessary, as it was followed by the <a href="http://stopsexpredators.blogspot.com/2006/09/shocking-emails.html" target="top">first published revelation of charges of inappropriate advances toward a congressional page against Congressman Mark Foley.</a> He continued, "while I was away, the blog has been noticed and some shocking emails have been received!" The scandal has since received nationwide attention from major media sources, it led to yesterday's resignation of the Florida Republican, and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901574.html" target="top">it has raised questions of foreknowledge among members of Republican House leadership.</a> But the story originally broke a week ago Thursday on the independent weblog, Stop Sex Predators. The blog was started on August 30 and had only posted three times over the course of a single week before lapsing into a two week period of inactivity. Then on September 21, the author, also named Stop Sex Predators, <a href="http://stopsexpredators.blogspot.com/2006/09/shocking-emails.html" target="top">published three email tips from three congressional interns</a>, who identified themselves as "congress intern," "hill boy," and "repub intern." The blogger then published a <a href="http://stopsexpredators.blogspot.com/2006/09/holy-cow.html" target="top">fourth email the same day</a> from another intern named "No Body." The emails named Congressmen Mark Foley (R-FL), Barney Frank (D-MA), and Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) as the target of rumors about their sexuality. Frank and Kolbe are openly gay, as the interns acknowledged in their emails. However, two of the interns specifically accused Foley of questionable acts. One, calling himself "congress intern," related an email exchange with Foley that he terminated after the congressman said he was "going to be visiting my area." The other, identified as "repub intern," alleged that after entering the Washington gay bar Cobalt using a false identification, he entered the restroom and "[Foley] followed me in and tried to grope me." ___________________________________________ "BushCo aren't incompetent...they are Complicit!" -Me "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell "When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." -Mahatma GandhiEdited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://www.geocities.com/orcthrasher/files/images/Qn38113.gif" BORDER=0> at: 9/30/06 9:00 pm

by **sunny** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:00 pm

<a href="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/09/pagegate-where-did-im-log-come-from.html">cannonfire.blogspot.com/2...-from.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>I don't mind speculation as long as it comes clearly identified as such, and as long as we are willing to put our theories into rewrite as new data arrives. So let us speculate as to who might have placed that log in the hands of ABC News. Who, aside from Foley and the object of his attentions, could possibly have made a record of that chat? Let us consider an historical parallel. Remember those humiliating clandestine tape recordings of Prince Charles and Princess Diana? When those private telephone conversations dropped into the British media, few asked about their origins. The tapes simply appeared, like Aphrodite springing forth from the head of Zeus. Some believe that MI5 or 6 made the recordings, which they released to the press for reasons best known to themselves. For years, I've discussed a "war" between the current administration and one faction of our intelligence services. Many in the CIA despise Bush, and top military leaders have turned against him. This White House has weathered leaks that would have destroyed previous presidencies, because nothing can touch Bush as long as Congress remains controlled by programmed party bots. The only way to stop W is to change Congress. I think I need say no more.<hr></blockquote>

by **dugoboy** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:02 pm

: D ___________________________________________ "BushCo aren't incompetent...they are Complicit!" -Me "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell "When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." -Mahatma Gandhi

by **dbeach** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:52 pm

but very intersting and sounds quite plaussible especially that Denny has connections to some dirty Turk money.. its will be neat distraction from the crimes of Herr Buhsler..but this is treacherous water for the coke sniffin awoler a large GOPP scandal to counter the planned Rover OCT surprise???? <a href="http://www.rense.com/general73/page.htm">www.rense.com/general73/page.htm</a> "Major cover-up suspected in GOP's "Pagegate" now rocking Capitol Hill. Capitol Hill sources report that the congressional page sex scandal that has barraged the Republican leadership weeks before the general election is a re-flash of a similar scandal in the late 1980s. In June 1989, openly gay Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, two months before he admitted that his aide was using his Capitol Hill home for prostitution purposes, threatened to expose the identities of a number of closeted gay Republican members of Congress after a Republican National Committee surfaced that suggested then-House Speaker Thomas Foley was gay. The Republican leadership went into immediate crisis mode and wanted to sweep the matter aside. However, the story of Republican lobbyists and members of Congress procuring the services of underage male prostitutes soon hit the newspapers. The scandal surrounding GOP congressmen having sex with minors first burst onto the headlines in October 1980 when Maryland conservative Republican Rep. Bob Bauman resigned after his arrest for having sex with a 16-year old male prostitute. In 1983, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds was censured by the House for inappropriate sexual contact with a 17-year old male page. The Republicans clearly pulled their punches amid calls for Studds to be expelled by the House. However, after Studds' admission he was gay, he was re-elected in 1984. Although Studds was the first House member to admit his homosexuality, the GOP was worried about starting a trend of self-disclosure. They had their own skeletons to be concerned about. In 1989, the Barney Frank-male prostitute aide scandal broke. However, Frank cooperated with the House Ethics Committee in its investigation and he quickly fired the aide involved. The year 1989 would also introduce the American public to the underground sordid world of GOP underage male prostitution rings -- a story that emanated from a scandal involving male congressional pages that culminated in headlines in The Washington Times beginning in June 1989 that reported underage male prostitutes had been given midnight tours of the White House. As WMR reported yesterday, these tours involved the private quarters of the White House. With the scandal surrounding Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley's sordid e-mail and Instant Message exchanges with 16-year old male pages, including one who was sponsored by Lousiana Republican Rep. Rodney Alexander, those familiar with the 1989 scandals are taking a closer look at House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Congressional sources told WMR that Hastert, while working from 1964 to 1980 as a popular history/government teacher and wrestling coach at Yorktown High School, in Yorktown, Illinois -- a suburb of Chicago -- was the subject of persistent rumors about inappropriate contact with male members of his high school wrestling team. The culture of the times usually resulted in such alleged behavior being covered up by public and parochial school authorities. However, the rumors were enough for his Yorktown constituency to reject him when he ran for an open seat in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1980. However, Hastert lucked out when another sitting Republican House member who represented the three-seat district had a stroke and declined to run for re-election. The GOP machine bosses selected Hastert as the replacement candidate. Hastert served in Springfield from 1980 to 1986, six years to make the transformation from wrestling coach with a cloud surrounding himself to politician. In 1986, Hastert received an unexpected promotion. After incumbent Republican Rep. John Grotberg was nominated by the GOP for a second term, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and fell into a coma. The Illinois Republican Convention selected Hastert as the replacement on the ticket, a virtual election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the republican district"

by * » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:16 am

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/ap_on_go_co/foley_reynolds">GOP leaders knew of Foley e-mail in '05</a>

by **dbeach** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:54 am

""The improper communications between Congressman Mark Foley and former House Congressional pages is unacceptable and abhorrent. It is an obscene breach of trust," Hastert, R-Ill., Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said in a written statement Saturday evening. "His immediate resignation must now be followed by the full weight of the criminal justice system."" and the hippocritters will line up this could be a GOS [Grand Ole Scandal} for the GOP and the red meanies deserve worse. on to the bubba hotel for Herr Foley NEXT!!! There is alot of potential on this story Wonder IF bush will light off some fireworks in the US to cover this scandal cuz ...its gonna be big Wonder what Larry Flynnt is doing??? he got the dirt on the entire DC cesspool.

by **chiggerbit** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:26 pm

"...The year 1989 would also introduce the American public to the underground sordid world of GOP underage male prostitution rings -- a story that emanated from a scandal involving male congressional pages that culminated in headlines in The Washington Times beginning in June 1989 that reported underage male prostitutes had been given midnight tours of the White House...." Wait a minute, I didn't realize that the Washington Times series involved pages. Anybody have anything specific on that? And this is mind-boggling: "...Congressional sources told WMR that Hastert, while working from 1964 to 1980 as a popular history/government teacher and wrestling coach at Yorktown High School, in Yorktown, Illinois -- a suburb of Chicago -- was the subject of persistent rumors about inappropriate contact with male members of his high school wrestling team. The culture of the times usually resulted in such alleged behavior being covered up by public and parochial school authorities. However, the rumors were enough for his Yorktown constituency to reject him when he ran for an open seat in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1980...."

by **dbeach** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:30 pm

<a href="http://www.cloakanddagger.de/media/BACKUP%20PAGES/WASHINGTON%20TIMES%20SMOKING%20GUN.htm">www.cloakanddagger.de/med...%20GUN.htm</a> 1989 story is this for real that the paper was pulled???

by **Avalon** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:36 pm

In addition, WMR has learned of possible connections between GOP lawmakers and former school teacher John Mark Karr, who was arrested in Thailand and deported to the United States after he claimed, falsely, that he killed six-year old Jon Benet Ramsey at her Boulder, Colorado home in 1996. After Boulder prosecutors declined to prosecute Karr for JonBenet's death, he was transferred to Sonoma County, California to face misdemeanor child pornography charges. However, U.S. intelligence source report to WMR that the high degree of interest shown by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. intelligence officials in Karr -- including having one CIA officer in Bangkok intercede, along with DHS Bangkok attache Ann Hurst, with Thai law enforcement authorities after Karr's arrest -- was due to Karr's knowledge of the involvement of top U.S. government officials in a major pedophilia ring. Someone commenting on Americablog pointed out this paragraph from a Wayne Madsen posting. I wonder how much longer Mr. Karr will be with us? It doesn't take a psychic to see an "accident" or "sudden illness" in his future. <a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/index.php">www.waynemadsenreport.com/index.php</a>

GOP Foley Page Scandal First Broke on four week old Weblog

GOP Foley Page Scandal First Broke on four week old Weblog

Cannonfire with interesting speculation

Re: Cannonfire with interesting speculation

its only Waynes world

now it's hit the MSM

Re: now it's hit the MSM

Re: its only Waynes world

Re: its only Waynes world

Karr Konnection?

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