GOP House Leadership Knew About Sexual Predator Foley-- For A YEAR!
by Paul Rosenberg, Fri Sep 29, 2006 at 05:33:17 PM EDT
The ABC News report"The Sexually Explicit Internet Messages That Led to Fla. Rep. Foley's Resignation" has damning instant messages, says there are more "too graphic to be broadcast," and that Foley could go to jail "under some of the same laws he helped to enact."
But that's not the worst of it. The worst is this:
One former page tells ABC News that his class was warned about Foley by people involved in the program.In other words, Foley's behavior was part of a pattern that was known to House authorities. How high up?
AP is reporting that House leadership knew:
The page worked for Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., who said Friday that when he learned of the e-mail exchanges 10 to 11 months ago, he called the teen's parents. Alexander told the Ruston Daily Leader, "We also notified the House leadership that there might be a potential problem," a reference to the House's Republican leaders.In short, this is not an individual scandal. It is an institutional scandal of the GOP-controlled House. Foley almost certainly violated the law, and Dennis Hastert and his lieutenants covered it up. This is now the issue fo the 2006 midterm elections--if only the Democrats realize it.
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