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
Imagine that...a democrat lying.
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.
That exchange:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera): All week long there have been suggestions by - on talk radio and by Republicans and their allies that this was perhaps a Democratic dirty trick. And I just want to ask you plainly, did you or your staff know anything...
REP RAHM EMANUEL (CHAIR DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE): No.
STEPHANOPOULOS (Off-camera): About these e-mails or instant messages before they came out?
EMANUEL: George, never saw them. And I'm going to say one thing, let's go through the facts right here.
REP ADAM PUTNAM (CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE): But were you aware of them? You said you didn't see them.
EMANUEL: Never saw them. Let me just go right through the facts, one Brian Ross, who broke this story on your network said it came from a Republican source. Very unusual to do that. Fact two, the Hill paper said it came from a Republican source. All the Republicans and staff people are coming forward are Republicans. Mark Foley who wrote the e-mails originally at the bottom of this whole problem, Republican. The leadership of the Congress from Tom Reynolds to John Boehner to Speaker Hastert who can't come on this show...
STEPHANOPOULOS (Off-camera): So you were not aware and no involvement?
EMANUEL: No, we never saw them. No involvement and she said not anything, George, and what the fact is this is...
PUTNAM: Was there an awareness?
EMANUEL: No. There's a holy...
PUTNAM: Was there any awareness?
EMANUEL: No. Never saw them. The first time I ever saw these things right here when Brian Ross broke the show and when "The Post" had the story. What you guys want to do is take your dirty laundry and throw it over the fence and try to blame other people for the problems and this is...
Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/rahm_emanuels_unholy_foley_fol.html
As usual the MSM, even the WTimes, ignored his Clintonian weasel answer and wrote the article as if he had answered the question directly. Perhaps, "Have knowledge of" has some legalese definition more specific than its common usage.
I rememeber the Clintons and their henchmen were always saying, "There is no evidence of" using the legal meaning that it had not been entered into a court of law as evidence in a case, instead of its common usage. I fear that we are falling down the Rabbit Hole.
So when does the investigation begin? Where is the clamoring for a special prosecutor? I won't hold my breath.
Since when is it "news" that the left coordinates with the media to the disadvantage of republicans ?
Rush Limbaugh talking about this story right now.
Rahm is bad news.
Of course they did this. And they'll do it again - because it worked.
I can see both of them.
But I think you have to be a subscriber to see it.
It is well known that there is a slime machine that destroys people. It is fueled by the media which is 100% in the tank for the makers of the slime machine (dems).
They put lies into the machine, crank it up, and the person (always a conservative or Christian) is destroyed.
And just imagine if the parties were reversed. The Dems would be screaming about all the "children" who had been victimized because those who knew did not act. Olberman, Couric, Brian Ross and the rest of them would be making this huge headline news.
never let it die, just like
"Rahm is bad news."
Ramn is good news the Democrats. He is a tenacious political pit bull not unlike our own Karl Rove. Of all the Rats, this one worries me the most. More than even Pelosi.
I agree with you 100 percent.
Whatever we do we can't stand down because we're discouraged. Rush has picked up the story and now we need to start pushing others like Hannity to talk loudly and often about it.
And lest anybody not get the picture, he is 100 percent Hillary's butt boy.
now that is an unpleasant picture
Lisping ballerina butt-boy!
Just more proof that the Rats and MSM have been working hand in hand.
I think thou dost protesteth too much Em.
FROM THE CLINTONS' TERRORISM FAILURE TO THE FOLEY HIT:
connecting the dots
HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE FINDINGS:
RAHM EMANUEL LIED [FOLEY A LIKELY CLINTON HIT JOB]
SEE RAHM DANCE
THE CLINTON-FOLEY NEXUS: A THEORY part 2
'KILL BILL'
THE CLINTON-FOLEY NEXUS: A THEORY part 1
KILL BILL: AN UNINTENDED APPRAISAL OF THE CLINTON YEARS?
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