1982 ABC News report: Capital Hill, sex, drugs, pages, and Larry Craig's denial

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Political Videos: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x50205

ABSOLUTELY SCANDALOUS!! From a former page:
"...Congressman actively sought ought and apparently still seeks out homosexual relationships with minor male pages."

Allegedly Congressmen in 1982 were giving drugs to pages, and Congressmen were having sex with minor pages.
FBI could not "corroborate" the charges and said "it is not a widespread, organized problem."

Congress investigated, appointing a special counsel, as reported by John Dean:
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The Foley Follies: What Can Be Learned From The History of Congressional Sex Scandals, And How Can the Page Program Be Reformed?
By JOHN W. DEAN - http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20061006.html

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Pages are patronage appointments, allocated by the Speaker of the House and the Senate leadership. Currently the House, which Foley's actions have forced into focus, has 72 pages -- 48 appointed by Republicans and 24 by Democrats.

Although the program itself is laudable, it has over time resulted in a number of allegations of what amounts to statutory rape. For example, in 1978, Steven R. Valentine, a former page, published a book, Each Time A Man (1978), about his experiences as a page in 1973-1974. Valentine said he knew of a homosexual Congressman who "actively sought out and apparently still seeks out homosexual relationships with minor male pages." He added, "In 1973, for instance, one House page allegedly accompanied the Congressman to Spain during one of the lengthy Congressional recesses."

More scandalous allegations relating to pages arose in 1982-83. On June 30, 1982, former page Leroy Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas told CBS News that he had engaged in illicit sexual relations with several Congressmen, and had arranged for male prostitutes to have sex with others. Then another former page, Jeff Opp of Denver, came forward to say "that he had knowledge of, but had not participated in, parties with members of Congress involving sex and cocaine."

When the New York Times spoke to Steven Valentine in July 1982, Valentine commented that "friends told him that two Congressmen had engaged in homosexual relations with pages. One Congressman still serving in the House, … and the other was defeated for re-election." Without naming names, Valentine added that another Congressman was rumored to have invited pages to share an apartment rent-free in exchange for homosexual favors. Valentine said he never told the authorities because he was afraid that "some of the activities were so sordid I might be endangered if I did anything with it," and added, "I was only 18 at the time." .........

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1. BLACKMAIL

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2. Nobody would publish the ex-page's book, so the story went down a rat hole

He then self-published his book, which is usually not taken seriously by people, but rather, generates public ridicule or indifference.

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3. LARRY CRAIG SAYS: Bill Clinton is "A Nasty, Bad Naughty Boy" = VIDEO

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x60279

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10. Video YOUNK TURKS: Senator Larry Craig Busted Soliciting Gay Sex

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x60324

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4. Conspiracy of Silence

google it watch it

Blackmail

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9. The LINK:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=866739408240639313&q=Conspiracy+of+Silence&total=254&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

This is the best quality version of Conspiracy of Silence available on the Internet.

... This is a video made which delves deeply into the Franklin Cover Up and reveals what Congress basically had banned from you ever seeing. You will see how Congress tried to ban this video in the opening of the video.

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5. Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the right wing -- then and now

Glenn Greenwald - Aug 28, 2007
Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the right wing -- then and now
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/28/craig/


The reaction to the Larry Craig story provides one of the most vivid illustrations yet of how the right-wing movement works. Last October, just weeks before the midterm election, gay activist Mike Rogers reported that the married, GOP "family values" Senator repeatedly had sex with anonymous men in public bathrooms. His report was based on "extensive research," including interviews with several men whom Craig solicited for bathroom sex.

As Rogers argued at the time, the story was relevant -- just as the Vitter prostitute story was -- in light of Craig's frequent political exploitation of issues of sexual morality and his opposition to virtually every gay rights bill. Rogers' story, as a factual matter, seemed relatively credible, both because of his history of accurate outings and because there is no discernible reason why, if he were intent on fabricating, he would single out someone as obscure as Larry Craig, who was not even up for re-election.

Nonetheless, it is hard to overstate the intense fury that this pre-election report triggered from the Right -- not at Senator Craig for engaging in this behavior, but at Rogers for reporting it. A virtually unanimous chorus on the Right furiously insisted that nothing could be more irrelevant than whether the married family values Senator had sex with men in bathrooms (acts that are simultaneously criminal and adulterous). The same political movement that impeached Bill Clinton and which has made a living exploiting issues of private morality for political gain insisted that Rogers had reached a new and despicable low in politics even by reporting this.

This reaction was so widespread that only a fraction can be identified here for illustrative purposes. .....

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7. I never knew this.

You know, with the acres of jokes going on about Craig, which I love, you'd think someone would care to mention this aspect of it. This is exactly what they're doing with Rush Limbaugh. They don't want the public to know that he is, in fact, a draft dodging shill who uses the patriotism as a weapon for his own agenda.

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8. I was surprised Craig solicited john sex several times before the 2006 election

and they covered it up. How the right-wing movement works is like a military machine. Everyone does as ordered.

In 2000, in Florida the operatives got orders and cash under their hotel doors in the morning, and did not know who put it there. But, they follow the orders!

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6. Randi Rhodes: Senator Larry Craig is and always was gay

Randi Rhodes: Senator Larry Craig is and always was gay
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x60284

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Stephanie Miller makes fun of Larry Craig
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x60289

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Stephanie Miller's callers make fun of Larry Craig
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x60291