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1. says Republican leaders did not have e-mails

who ever did have them should have given them to us :eyes:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. called it a vile email exchange

[Janice325]

2. I'm watching.

I hope they catch all the bastards in their lies and they are punished.
Fucking assholes.
I hope their careers are toast.
k&r
I'm really pissed. Sounds like their trying to help the pages more than the Katrina victims.
Fuckers!!!!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Oh WEEEeee didn't know....

We would never try to cover something like this up! We're going to investigate fully. We're going to probe this deeeeeply. :puke:

[patrice]

4. Notes please for us cubicle rats.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Says they have gone to great lengths to protect pages

new security, more adult supervision

"Foley duped alot of people, he duped me too" wwhhhhaaaa!

Chairman of the Page Board up now.

[patrice]

9. Thanks!

I have 10 minutes more before my lunch break is over. I hope he says something interesting!

[cal04]

7. Shimkus up now talking

about IM's
Foley should be ashamed

[cal04]

12. safety is our top priority

setting up a number for concerns
days ahead working with the page board
determined to work so this will never happen again
WON'T take questions

[stopbush]

8. Trying to lay the groundwork to exonerate themselves for their

complicity.

"We didn't know" BS.

No admission that they didn't tell a single Dem about Foley.

CYA - and bad CYA at that.

[displacedtexan]

10. Shimkus & Hastert can't read any better than Bush*

The skinny:

It was all Foley.

Other repubs had no idea.

They'll work to make the pages safe!

My reaction: What a crock!

[Danieljay]

11. "Since 9/11" we set up...

oh boy, can they not say ANYTHING without talking about 9/11?

[Monkeyman]

13. Hastert just caught himself he claims he did not know

Hastert office was told 6 months or a year before. One other page said they know since 2001

donate to beat this lying piece of garbage

www.john06.com

[Trouser Trout]

15. Oh shit, it's Mr Creosote !

FATbastert is looking like terry Jones in costume

[stopbush]

14. Trying to blame it on Dems!!! Implying they held the info

until the election was near.

CNN reporter now calling it politicing.

[CottonBear]

16. Is the CNN reporter blaming the Dems? n/t (Cube Rat here.)

[stopbush]

17. Nope. Stating the obvious - the Rs are deflecting.

The best was the shouts at the end from reporters, "WHY WON'T YOU TAKE QUESTIONS, SIR?"

[CottonBear]

18. Thanks. I've been w/out TV or internet for several days now. n/t

[sjdnb]

19. Why statements don't hold water . . .

In Hastert's request to the AG:

" According to an Editor’s Note that appeared on the St. Petersburg Times’ website yesterday, the Times was given a set of emails from Mr. Foley to Representative Alexander’s former page in November of 2005. (See “A Note From the Editors” located at http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/ , visited on September 30, 2006). The editors state that they viewed this exchange as “friendly chit chat” and decided not to publish it after hearing an explanation from Representative Foley. <b>Acting on this same communication, the Chairman of the House Page Board and the then Clerk of the House confronted Mr. Foley, demanded he cease all contact with the former page as his parents had requested, and believed they had privately resolved the situation as the parents had requested.</b>"

If they were concerned enough to request "he cease all contact" AND had received a COMPLAINT from the parents . . . WHY would they have not investigated further, unless they wanted to cover it up?

And, does anyone believe they would not have shared this privately with others in the party including the leadership?

[eleny]

21. If nothing else, their diligence isn't worth a darn

Foley's reputation went back for years. Where was the follow up and keeping track? So, the leadership had an obligation to monitor him closely.

Thanks for your information! I hadn't seen that yet.

[yellowcanine]

22. Took no questions?? Hastert is still stonewalling. This is a "modified

linmited hangout." Haldeman and Nixon apparently still have some devotees in the Republican Party.

[sjdnb]

24. more . . .

Haven't seen this discussed yet . . .

In July 2006, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) forwarded the emails to the FBI for investigation.

They have now requested that the DOJ I.G. probe why the FBI didn't investigate and that an outside counsel investigate why the leadership did not investigate further - especially given the 16 year old himself indicated TWICE the exchange had 'freaked him out'.

"Several members of the Republican leadership have now admitted to knowing for nearly a year that Rep. Foley engaged in email exchanges with a sixteen-year-old former House page. These members, including Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Reps. Rodney Alexander (R-LA), John Shimkus (R-IL) and Tom Reynolds (R-NY) have all claimed that they failed to take action because the boy’s parents did not want to pursue the matter. The decision not to investigate further left other House pages unprotected and vulnerable to a potential sexual predator."

http://www.citizensforethics.org/

[lupita]

20. I am suprised they haven't blamed Clinton yet n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

23. Good, keep lying on the record Denny

Conspiring to cover up a crime is a crime.