AP Source: Justice looking at new page case

[rodeodance]

Source: Justice looking at new page case

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Overseers of the House page program this week discussed a camping trip that Rep. Jim Kolbe (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz. took with two former pages and others in 1996 — an outing now under review by the Justice Department, a congressional source said Tuesday.


The House Page Board, consisting of three lawmakers and two senior House officials, did not have any new information beyond recent news stories on the Kolbe trip. The source is familiar with the discussions but is not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

The conference call Monday involving the Kolbe trip shows that the people responsible for the teenage page program are casting a wider net following revelations that ex-Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) was sending overly friendly e-mails and sexually explicit instant messages to former male pages.

The meeting was first revealed Monday by the lone Democrat on the Page Board, Rep. Dale Kildee (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan, who declined to say which lawmakers were discussed.........

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_go_co/congress_pages;_ylt=AqGvQHqWhz0YX01mT7s0js6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

[wakeme2008]

1. Interesting did the Dem really say this

"lawmakers were discussed" :)

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I've ad a feeling all along, that the lid is gonna come off something

fairly big here--big in the sense of involving several Representatives--and that there will be little the Puggies can do to keep it covered because the source of the accusations will be ex-pages starting to come forward. Some pages will no doubt maintain a code of silence, but there will be a number who do not, who may have been lying in the weeds, afraid to speak until now. With any business, this scandal will still be metastasizing by the time of the election.

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2565242