Posted on 12/12/2006 9:17:10 AM PST by Quilla
Democratic campaign operatives pushed newspapers to write about then-Rep. Mark Foley's e-mails to teenage pages in the hope that a scandal would emerge before the midterm elections, according to a House ethics report.
The findings were bolstered when an aide to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Illinois Democrat, said the congressman also knew about the e-mails, which were dubbed "inappropriate" by the ethics panel. Mr. Emanuel, who was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) when Mr. Foley's sex scandal broke in late September, had denied knowledge of the Florida Republican's e-mails.
The House ethics panel, which is formally called the Standards of Official Conduct Committee, Friday released its final probe into Mr. Foley's behavior, scolding Republicans for failing to act on years of troubling signs and naming Democrats who knew about the e-mails.
CNN first reported Saturday that Mr. Emanuel, the incoming chairman of the Democratic caucus, was "informed" but never saw the e-mails that Mr. Foley sent to a former page in the summer of 2005.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
bad link
Well, duh!
An End to Ethics Truce? Democrats Hint at Imminent Filing of Complaint
A pox on both parties.
My apologies, please try this one:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20061212-123555-4731r.htm
I thought it was pretty well known BEFORE the election (at least to FReepers), That C.R.E.W. had been pushing this story to the media for months, if not years
The oxymoronic House ethics panel is investigating.
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Yeah, the fox is checking the hen house for missing chickens....what a farse of gutter-level politics.
this one doesn't seem to work either...anyone else?
You're put too fine a point on it.
They're not just oxymoronic. They'll generally moronic.
I don't get it. Here's the link to the 2nd page of the article - maybe it will work for you.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20061212-123555-4731r_page2.htm
This has been known for some time. The Democrats knew about Foley's instant messages since early last summer, but the Republicans did not. They only saw a couple of vague emails, and warned Foley off.
But you won't EVER read about this except in alternative news sources. The big headlines only said that the ethics committee blamed the Republican leadership for not properly protecting the pages.
bookmark bump
They're having server problems.
O'Reilly has issued a challenge to find a conservative in the liberal journalistic wasteland. The search is on. Anybody know of one?
I suspect (I have no evidence, just a gut feeling) that he was also involved with Ronnie Earl's indictment of DeLay.
this is a done deal, why keep harping on it. Foley is gone the election is lost.
The Wash. Times website has been screwed up for several days...your linking isn't the problem.
Yeah we was grilled on it on tom talk show he was on... kept repeating "I never saw anything" avoiding answering if he knew about them and how they were being shopped around.
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