Istook aide may be victim in page scandal ("Victim" Hires Major Defense Lawyer?)

The Oklahoman ^ | Oct 5, 2006 | Chris Casteel, Nolan Clay, Michael McNutt

[WL-law]

It looks like 2 different layers/levels of Blackmail may be at work here.

The first level is the Blackmail perpetrated upon Foley's closeted-gay staffer, Fordham, by Rogers and John Aravosis of America’s Blog.

As has been documented by the macsmind blog, "both are gay activists who on many occasions have threatened not only Foley and Fordham with outing, but others as well. These guys are what we call “Political Thugs”, the only thing they don’t use is guns, but they do nearly as much damage. Others call it by it’s real name - blackmail."

The blackmail /"outing threat" letter they sent to Fordham, which is fairly overt in its blackmail intent, has been posted in this thread.

So -- when Brian Ross and others report that an "intermediary" has provided documentation of Foley's misbehavior, and that the documentation was "provided" by a republican staffer, Ross (knowlingly) falsely implies that repubs are leaking the information and that the intermediary and the staffer are both republicans and working in concert.

Whereas -- the truth may well be that the operatives described above extracted that information from Fordham through extortion/threat/blackmail. THEY are the so called "intermediary", and note that Ross conspicuously never offers or clarifies the political affiliation of the "intermediary".

So that's Blackmail Level 1. Now how would Level 2 work?

The intermediary, in the early stages of the blackmailing effort, gets from Fordham some Foley e-mails and starts to contact the pages, and lo and behold discovers among the Foley pages an ambitious and cunning young man, who you have been describing here tonight. The young man is gay, as are the intermediaries. The pieces begin to fall together.

The intermediary begins to see where the endgame can play out as an October surprise.

The intermediary wants to create the impression that Foley's office is performing political favors for the young ex-page.
At the same time, the young ex-page is ambitious and hustling to get a resume building job managing a real campaign.

The intermediary leans on Fordham to "make it happen" and buy the page's silence by getting him the campaign manager job, and it appears that the Foley office has strong links to the Istook office, so that's where the page was placed.

The page may not be fully aware of the leverage that was applied, but knows at a minimum that he has, in the intermediaries, an "angel" that is making good things happen - and in return the page provides further salacious details to the intermediaries, tightening their grip on Fordham and Foley.

Finally, once the ballot is set and Foley is effectively not replaceable on the ballot, the trap is sprung by the intermediary, who goes to Brian Ross at ABC to drop his bomb.

Ross, always ambitious himself, perhaps decides to up the ante by re-framing the story as not just a Foley matter, but a Hastert matter.

But that is creating a problem for his story -- the story is just too big now to stand up to scrutiny, and the pajamahadeen have been roused.

[antceecee]

I thought the DemoRATS were the champions of GAY ISSUES!!!! Why are they set on bashing one of their core constituencies???

[nopardons]

Yes indeedy and we still don't know what Rove's promised OCTOBER SURPRISE is! :-)

The stupid, arrogant MSM and the Dems still haven't quite figured out that they can no longer get away with "fake but accurate".

[beyond the sea]

ping

[Eva]

That's interesting information, thanks.

[PhiKapMom]

Very good analysis. I keep thinking that Istook was the one responsible for Clinton ending up in Harlem for an office instead of a plush westside office. There is so much at play here. Makes your head spin.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Yes, but, they will try to ( SHEEPLE the people ) and try to get as much mileage out of the fake scandal as much as possible..
Remember, to the Dems/MSDBM, facts don't count, the serious of the charges do...
I wonder how many front page news papers will reveal that this was a trumpeted up bogus scandal by the Dems with the MSDBMs help ? or how much play time this revelation get on the nightly news ?
As Rush would say,,, crickets chirping.

[nopardons]

BRAVO!

[PhiKapMom]

The Oklahoman will be one of those papers. They are not afraid to tell it like it is! Channel 9 may be a CBS affiliate but Kelly Ogle always tells it like it is especially on his My Two Cents portion of the news. Great to hear a conservative news broadcaster.

[nopardons]

WOW !

[PhiKapMom]

I went looking for that story after this hit because I find it strange they (Istook campaign) have another staffer in big trouble.

[nopardons]

That's precisely why we, here at FR, have to get this info out to EVERYONE we know.

The facts ARE being discussed on talk radio, on FNC, and look at what's posted to FR! We know, so it is incumbent on all of us, to get the facts to people who may still foolishly "trust" the MSM.

[WashingtonSource]

Pelosi should resign, immediately!

Didn't the Democratic head of pages know all about this before Hastert knew but did nothing about it? What did Pelosi know and when did she know it?

[top 2 toe red]

Very good analysis! You should send this to Rush, Hannity, and Brit for sure.

I despise that liberal worm hack Brian Ross with an absolute passion, this is the kind of thing that he eats up with a spoon. Creep.

[nopardons]

It's a "killer", PKM! You need to send this info to everyone at FNC, Rush, Sean, Mark ( ping holdonnow and send him this in FREEPmail ), etc.!

It really needs to get out there.....BIG TIME!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

So ? everyone ? what is your opinion ? analysis ? as to how this will effect the voter's decision ? will it hurt the Republicans ? or will they dodge this one ? or ? will the voters fury be in full force this November 7 against the Dems ?
Or is it to early to call, since we don't know just will happen in the news few days, weeks ?

[DollyCali]

The plot thickens

[beyond the sea]

Very interesting post!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Has anyone sent this to ( LGF ? Little Green Footballs ) ? Captains Quarters ?
Yes, your right, get the word to these people, and Rush, Sean, The Great one ( Mark Levin ).

[Eva]

If anything, this little attempt at extortion will remind the voters how much they have to lose if the Democrats take over.