Posted on 12/09/2006 3:42:24 PM PST by indianrightwinger
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, had heard of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a former male page a year before they became public, a campaign committee aide told CNN.
Foley, a Republican, resigned after the scandal broke. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans have suggested repeatedly that some Democrats knew about the e-mails earlier than they have acknowledged, but waited till midterm elections approached to bring up the issue.
Emanuel's campaign committee aide said Friday that the Illinois Democrat was informed in 2005, but never saw the correspondence and did not have enough information to raise concerns. The aide said Emanuel took "no action" because his knowledge was "cursory" and little more than "rumor."
The aide's acknowledgement differs from the flat "no" Emanuel gave in October when asked -- during an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" -- if he or anyone on his staff knew of the e-mails before the scandal broke.
The e-mails surfaced when House Democratic staffer Matt Miller sent a copy of them to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's communications director, Bill Burton, in fall 2005, according to an investigative report released Friday. (Watch what the House ethics committee found in its probe of Mark Foley's e-mails Video)
Burton told Emanuel about the e-mails but did not tell reporters, the aide said.
In his deposition to the ethics committee, Miller said he also sent Foley's e-mails to the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, the Miami Herald and Roll Call, according to the report. (Read the full report -- PDF)
Miller also sent the material to Harper's Magazine "and possibly others," the report said.
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Rahm was probably mad he didn't get any emails from Foley.
BUMP! PING!
OK. Who's suprised? Someone...anyone?
I'm shocked, shocked that there's politics in politics.
Since everybody else in DC knew about it, only a moron would have believed the democrats didn't know about it.
Well, of course he heard of them. How do you think they got leaked on the eve of the election?
Was this the old story we were following - Ping!?
Rush talked about this when it first came out - it's old news! Move along, folks, keep moving ...
Too late. The election is over. They won it and now they don't care what comes out. This is old fashioned politics at its more political.
BUMP!
One can only hope that the Pubbies learn something about politics from this.
Was this the old story we were following - Ping!?
And the Democrats gave the story to the liberal media just one month before the elections.
Rahm was made he didn't get a "Thank you".
And you know what? If they didn't, they would have had their license to contest elections suspended. The Dems used this stupid story for pure partisan political benefit, but we should have (1) seen this coming and (2) had an attack of our own in the wings.
You don't win elections by claiming your opponent outsmarted you. That's what the Dems did here.
To connect the dots, goto:
Democrats control 95% of the media. We have nothing compared to that.
The Clinton filth/smear machine is back in full force.
I hate to say this but whoever our nominee is going to be I hope he has aides that can play with the dirty big boys.
Yes...I betcha this Ethics group knew before the election that it was DEMS that did all of the passing around of these pictures...and it was DEMS that brought it out right before the election.
Typical lying Clintonista.
I concur.
You are right, MO....just think of what might have happened we don't know about..or could have happened, in the year that the dems were playing "hot potato" with the e-mails.
Rahm "Mossad" Emmanuel orchestrated the timing of delayed public 'disclosure' to maximize the political impact shortly before the election.
It's not a crime to withhold a political playing card, but the Democrats are corrupt to the core for doing so.
saw the exchange between Stephy and Rahm. Emanuel tried to change the question asked from did he know about the emails to had he actually seen them. You had to know then the greasy weasel not only knew about them, he's probably the one feeding them to Brian Ross.
Well, this explains how the MSM found out about Foley.
We have the internet and talk radio, both of which will be banned or severely curtailed in the next two years.
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Captain Renault: Oh, thank you very much.
That's nothing compared to the liberal media (newspapers, networks, academia, NPR, etc.)
But Rahm is not to blame - it's the GOP who is to blame for not protecting the pages ..??
This is the same thing the dems did about the prison abuse photos. They knew for months this was going on - yet they did nothing.
"The head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, had heard of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a former male page a year before they became public"
He was saving the story for the campaign. Democrats have no scruples.
If the GOP Leadership knew, they needed to get rid of Foley sooner. Of course, what if they really didn't know as they claim? Then that means that the Dems have superior political "intellegence data" on the GOP.
But as I have observed from the first, if the Democriminals really cared about protecting the innocent, they would have blown the whistle when they learned.
But I am not waiting on the Drive-by Media to note this.
Yep, surprise (although not to us), the Dems were well aware of this, held it for a year or so, shopped it to many in the press and finally got a hit in the press shortly before the 2006 election.How do you get that? I can imagine the howl from our side if they started pushing this kind of rumor without any solid proof. I'll bet they didn't want to touch it with a ten foot pole.
Gee .... sure looks like Rahm Emanuel is the new Chris Lehane
He kinda does look like a "hitman" doesn't he?
Cripes.
Yes, it is shocking, but then the dems have always been filty people. The fact that they allowed this to remain quiet while young pages were at risk shows you just how filthy they are.
The Dem Aide Worker sent them to every Dem and Lib paper .. but never notified the ethics panel ???
Yep .. it was a hitpiece, without a doubt
Odd..isn't it...that the Ethics Committee isn't filing any charges..or whatever they do...
SOOOOOO..they didn't find that the GOP leadership knew, and were involved in a cover up...
But, they DID know..that this made its way through the dem ranks...
They also know that Rahm said on the Stephy show..that he never "saw" them (e-mails)..tricky that guy..he didn't say he didn't know about them, though.
However no hand slap or anything for the people that did know, and didn't try to STOP it...just get it into NEWSPAPERS!!
I say get rid of the Ethics Committees...along with Emmanuel.
And the people in Florida who couldn't figure out how to vote for Foley's substitute candidate. What do we make of those republicans?
We knew this when it first happened. I'm not surprised at all.
Of course the Democrats would know about this. Who would a homosexual be homosexualing with in the first place
Admitting they (demoCommiecRATS and enemedia) created a pre election stunt instead of carrying out swift and judicious punishment?
What a shock to see CNN picking up a story I thought would never go further than foxnews.
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