http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/01/13/tape/index.shtml
More and more, the tale of the disgusting IMs remind me of the illegally taped republican phone conversations the Florida couple turned over to Jim McDermott.
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From today's LATimes:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-foley03oct03,0,4805984.story?coll=la-opinion-leftrail
"Foley resigned Friday after the ABC News website reported salacious instant messages that Foley had sent in 2003 to a male teenager who had been a House page. ABC's revelation, however, came about a year after members of the House leadership were made aware of the allegations about Foley, a deputy Republican whip and chairman — it would be impossible to make this stuff up — of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
That's when the office of Rep. Rodney Alexander (D-La.) received copies of four e-mails that Foley had sent to a 16-year-old from Louisiana who had recently completed his term as a House page. The teenager had sent the e-mails to several congressional staffers, telling one that he was "freaked out" by them."
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Folks, it seems obvious to me now, those "several congressional staffers" should be investigated. What did they do with those innocuous emails the former intern sent them? Did they ask the former intern to lead Foley on, play him, in IMs? Did they ask the former intern to preserve those IMs?
This former intern also conversed with other former interns, (via that intern website run by the fat kid, whose name I cn't remember right now, starts with a V), and it's quite possible one of them alerted congressional members/staffers to the disgusting IMs.
The former intern "freaked out"? I'm not buying that at all. I'm with Drudge in thinking the interns mocked Foley, made fun of him for being a wierd old man. That's how he was portrayed by the fat kid who runs the intern web site.