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ABC ONLINE GLITCH LEADS TO IDENTITY OF FOLEY ACCUSER; FEATURED IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD
The Drudge Report ^ | 10-04-06 | Drudge

Posted on 10/04/2006 5:12:16 PM PDT by jrooney

A posting of an unredacted instant message sessions between Rep. Mark Foley and a former congressional page has apparently exposed the identity of the now 21 year-old accuser...

ABC RELEASED TRANSCRIPT OF ONE CHAT BETWEEN FOLEY AND A MAN WHO WAS 18 AT THE TIME OF THE INSTANT MESSAGE EXCHANGE.... NETWORK STATED THE MESSAGE WAS TO 'UNDER AGE' TEEN... DEVELOPING...

ABC ONLINE GLITCH LEADS TO IDENTITY OF FOLEY ACCUSER; FEATURED IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD

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To: jrooney

Seems to me that this young man would have quite a lawsuit against ABC.


581 posted on 10/04/2006 6:46:52 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: jrooney

That is certainly possible. What has to be said for an IM sent to a minor to become illegal?


582 posted on 10/04/2006 6:46:55 PM PDT by Tatze (This tagline is brought to you by the Admin Moderator!)
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Aide says he reported Foley 3 years ago
583 posted on 10/04/2006 6:47:12 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Palladin
"There--I saved you from reading 550 other posts."

LOL thanks. I had already caught it on a link a min ago. There for a minute I thought it was taboo to post it or something. It's not like the guy was raped or anything lol.

584 posted on 10/04/2006 6:47:13 PM PDT by KoRn
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To: msnimje
Is it legal for ABC to publish these emails and IMS?

The real shame is that ABC published the IMs' and was found to have revealed a traceable identity which turned out to reveal ABC as liars (including Mr.Ross) Then they went back to their own web site (ABCs' web site) and made modifications trying, not to protect Jordon, but to coverup their own lies. But, they had already been found out.

What is it they say.....It's always the coverup which does them in.

585 posted on 10/04/2006 6:47:20 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Republican Red; MOgirl
thanks for the imformative update

Ping to MOgirl who is sorting through this with me

586 posted on 10/04/2006 6:47:24 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Even The Nicest Pug Has An Evil Twin)
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To: pepperdog; Pukin Dog
Absolutely no problem with root beer floats.

Vegetable - roots
Dairy - ice cream

Very healthy stuff.....

587 posted on 10/04/2006 6:48:02 PM PDT by ohioWfan (George W. Bush - "Take his character all together, and we shall not look upon his like again.")
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To: KJC1

Oh, spare me. The scoop is that the SO-CALLED ILLEGAL IM conversations didn't happen until after the "kid" was 18 which means they weren't illegal. Nothing in that message you quoted is illegal. A little creepy? Yes, but no one has said that the guy wasn't creepy. Not a single person on this thread. What we are saying is that ABC lied about the possibly illegal sex chat being with an underage person. The "kid" was 18 when they really got into the down and dirty.

In other words, the scoop is far from "dead meat" as you labeled it.


588 posted on 10/04/2006 6:48:12 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: AZRepublican

Let's hope so. Then we can get back to the good economic news and the cut and run Rats in Iraq.


589 posted on 10/04/2006 6:48:26 PM PDT by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: tophat9000

If the kids under 18 it attempted statutory rape over 18 it solicited a suborned for sex

It's neither, as the page was over the age of 16 which is the age of consent in Washington D.C.


590 posted on 10/04/2006 6:48:31 PM PDT by flaglady47 ( thinking out loud)
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To: Fawn

Could be.

I don't know. After reading those IMs, I would be so disgusted that I would go on every TV network in the free world to proclaim my innocence. A charge like that simply cannot go unanswered. Unless its true, of course.


591 posted on 10/04/2006 6:48:33 PM PDT by letsgonova19087
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To: Texas Songwriter

The Internet will forever be the scourge of the MSM. They just cant hide anymore.


592 posted on 10/04/2006 6:48:39 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Being a Liberal is just a coping mechanism for low self esteem and/or bad parenting.)
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To: Palladin
There--I saved you from reading 550 other posts.

and 4000 in other threads

593 posted on 10/04/2006 6:48:55 PM PDT by LowOiL ("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" - Benjamin Rush)
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To: jrooney

This means he is still gay, but broke no laws.


594 posted on 10/04/2006 6:49:04 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: KJC1

The scoop is that ABC played up sex talk while waiting to vote and alluded to the former page was a minor. ABC intentionally hid this fact, so they lied about the whole facts of the case. Yes he IM him as a 17 year old with overly friendly (creepy) message(s), however, that has not been the uproar. The sex talk was and ABC and the donks flamed this. There will be significant blowback on the mnow.


595 posted on 10/04/2006 6:49:18 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: TXBubba

Ok, I don't think I've seen the other drinking IM's. But the drinking age is still 21, not 18.


596 posted on 10/04/2006 6:49:22 PM PDT by Tatze (This tagline is brought to you by the Admin Moderator!)
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To: YummiBox

Sorry. I hit the reply button on your reply to him (oops) instead of going back to his statement (which I somehow missed).


597 posted on 10/04/2006 6:49:23 PM PDT by capt. norm (Liberalism = cowardice disguised as tolerance.)
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To: Palladin
Whew! Thank you for clearing that up, Palladin. There seems to be great confusion about this..

sw

598 posted on 10/04/2006 6:49:25 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: MOgirl
I just pinged you to read post 285, great update by Republican Red.

Glad that all is well with MOguy Jr. My ms.K4Harty jr. is sound asleep finally. She's a lil' 5 mo. old. ;o)

599 posted on 10/04/2006 6:49:42 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Even The Nicest Pug Has An Evil Twin)
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To: tophat9000

No, there is some ambiguity about the age, since the dinner-date after the 18th birthday exchange took place while he was 17 (though the lewd exchange was apparently after he turned 18).

There is no ambiguity about the abuse of authority question: he was no longer a page. The dinner was being arranged for a return visit to Washington. He was a page in 2002 (we know this because Passionate America has identified the recipient conclusively as a member of that Page class). The exhange took place near Christmas of 2002: after Congress had adjourned. He was no longer a page.


600 posted on 10/04/2006 6:50:13 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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