Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators, By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report
Posted on 10/01/2006 3:45:10 PM PDT by MSM Hater
Edited on 10/01/2006 4:03:57 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A little late to close the barn door, Denny.
BTW, CREW at http://www.citizensforethics.org/ is not down but they are claiming their servers can't handle the load.
At the same time they've posted nothing new since Saturday.
It's cute how they slipped from asking for an ethics committee hearing to an outside counsel hearing.
They also have, over on their blog page, a story about having turned immediately to the FBI 6 months ago when they first got the Instant Messages which they incorrectly call "emails".
This leaves us with a question ~ if the FBI has them why haven't they done anything with them?
Is it possible their Executive Director, formerly a prosecutor in DC, Melanie Sloan, has a "friend" at the FBI keeping this stuff bottled up so that even Gonzales doesn't know about them yet.
Or, is it possible these people, who are all Soros employees and flunkies, are telling a lie and that they NEVER gave anything to the FBI, nor did they just get this stuff 6 months ago ~ but maybe more like 3 years ago.
I suspect they are not going to soon overcome their problem with their server ~ and the "load" isn't traffic either, but more like "pants".
Outside counsel = special prosecutor? LOL.
Nothing political there. /s
Hastert has asked the AG and Justice.
The next blog post wasn’t until August 17th where the writer listed in a rather desultory manner some more notable sex predators. After that, two posts on August 26, including this curious item:
HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS! On a whim, I googled “Congressional sex scandals.” WHOA! You hear stories about ‘things’ that happen along the gilded halls of power in Washington. But I was shocked to see how much of it goes on the record! From a Washington Post article, here are five…yes, FIVE members of Congress who had incredibly inappropriate relationships with minors. What’s worse is that some continued to serve in Congress and one of them is still in office!! How much more of this is going on??
How much more, indeed. The fourth and last post for the entire month of August was a cut and paste from Wikpedia of the Gary Condit affair. More “political predators” on a site dedicated to sex predators in general? Why?
This brings us to September and what could be construed – if one had a suspicious nature – as a “build-up” of sorts to the Foley emails.
After a short post giving a link to a safety website on 9/2, there is another Capitol Hill sex story about an issue that stirred the blogs a bit on 9/4; the “skintern” culture on the Hill that saw young women dressing provocatively in order to get ahead.
Then comes a post on 9/21 that mentions Foley for the first time:
I have been away for a while, so please accept my apologies for the lack of blog posts. BUT….while I was away, the blog has been noticed and some shocking emails have been received! I can hardly believe it! I’m posting each one below. It’s proof that the Congressional Corruption of the past is alive and well today. It’s up to us to expose it and stop this predatory harassment! Please promote the blog and email any further information to stopsexpredators@gmail.com . Together we will make a difference!
Why would anyone notice this blog? It has posted nothing original in its short existence. The rare postings means that it has not built up any audience whatsoever. The first Technorati reference to the blog is from two days ago. Even a Google search doesn’t show it on the first 10 pages when searching for “Stop Sex Predators.”
And yet, 3 separate people who had contact with Congressman Foley somehow found this website independent of one another and supposedly sent emails to the owner of this site to complain about Foley’s inappropriate behavior.
Possible? Yes. Probable? I’ll let you decide.
The question is, are they real emails from real former pages and interns? Does this sound plausible to you?
My dad who gives a lot of money to republicans got me an internship capitolhill. I thought that I was hot shit, having such a good internship after myfreshman year of college.After a few weeks, I was finally learning my way around DC and I wasenjoying my job.One night, I decided to go out with my new fake ID to my first gay bar.I went to this bar named Coblot.There was old guy who would not leave me alone. He kept following me around.I tried to get him to leave me alone by going to the bathroom.Instead he followed me in and tried to grope me.A few days later my boss had me run something over to another congressmansoffice. It turned out that the guy who groped me was Representative MarkFoley.
All three emails sent independent of one another naming the same Congressional pervert? That is really stinking up
the smell test.
Finally, we get to the emails sent from Foley to the former Page. These are the emails that the House Republicans knew about and, after investigating the situation, ordered Foley to stay away from the boy and have no more contact outside of official Congressional duties. This was posted last Sunday, 9/24 – a full 5 days before the story broke:
This is absolutely amazing. I just received these emails. They were sent by Congressman Mark Foley to a 16-year-old male page. I have removed his name to protect his identity. But how shocking is this? I can’t believe this was emailed to me? There must be even more out there. Email me at stopsexpredators@gmail.com and let me know what we should do!! Something must be done!!
http://tinyurl.com/jpdpt
That is utterly ridiculous. DOJ is independent of the House. There is no reason they cannot investigate this. We do not need to incur the horrendous expense of an unfettered investigation of everything under the sun. My only concern would be how well DOJ would handle it.
Already spotted quite a few today, thanks.
My thought when I posted. Shows the dummies we take criminal behavior seriously.
If I'm not mistaken, there is at least one demoncrat in the house with the same page problem. No call for investigation there!
Move along! Nothing to see here!
Did I just hear on ABC News that these IMs are with pages who were there in 2001 and 2002?
One of the JOM (Just One Minute) posters who’s been paying attention thinks Jason Leopold is the owner of stopsexpredators. The only place we can find a link to the story is another site (from the desk of patrick J fitzgerald which we also think is Leopold) Leopold you may recall was writing all those crazy stories for Truthout including the one that Rove was indicted and the indictment would be unsealed in 24 hours.
Highly speculative, but it fits. Leopold would have been able to make CREW aware of the emails published on the blog. Here’s ABC News on the genesis of the story:
Clarice picks up the narrative:
As soon as the ABC story ran, and organization called C.R.E.W., which said it had the original exchange which Hastert had heard of and the St Peterburg paper had seen, put them on their website .They said they’d earlier conveyed them to the FBI, were releasing them because of the ABC story, and asked for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Republican leadership.It is abundantly clear to me that C.R.E.W. and ABC communicated and may have coordinated the release of this story.
CREW is a liberal public interest group funded by George Soros and seems to have its fingerprints all over this scandal.
LOL
Is that right?...I could have sworn they said the DOJ....my bad..
WOW --- you are awesome!
Please post this on it's own thread!
Wait, we need to keep all of this together.
You have it. It's easy to trace your posts.
Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators, By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report
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UPDATE
Tom McGuire, doing what he does best, lays out what we know about this website and has some more information on how the former page’s emails migrated from SSP to the mainstream press:
The River City Mud Bugle has even more backstory:
Two hours later [following the first posting of the former page’s emails], someone writing under the name “WHInternNow” published a diary on Daily Kos linking to Stop Sex Predators. The diary was met with skepticism from Daily Kos users, and received only a few largely critical comments. “This diary makes an accusation,” one commenter wrote, “a serious accusation, but provides no evidence to back it up.”
In a previous Daily Kos diary about Foley, “WHInternNow” made an early attempt to draw attention to Foley’s peccadilloes.
So the Kos Kids acted pretty responsibily under the circumstances for which they should be praised.
Come to think of it…if the Kos Kommunity wasn’t buying Foley as internet stalker, maybe you liberals out there would like to explain to me why the GOP leadership should have been more skeptical about Foley than their most rabid opponents?
Could you imagine any Rat doing this to Bawney Frank?
Yes. The smarmy Jason. OMG!
"I suspect they are not going to soon overcome their problem with their server ~ and the "load" isn't traffic either, but more like "pants"."
YEP..they are scrubbing it as we speak!
I wish that were true but its not.
When a Democrat does something wrong he is idolized because his failure was due to the oppressive nature of our society which was caused by republicans.
No way! The demonrats celebrate homosexual behavior.
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