Ed Schultz Message Board

aleman

Oct 2 2006, 07:10 PM

Yet another shoe is falling in this ongoing and still developing story. Apparently the FBI was given the emails in JULY of this year. If this investigation has been ongoing since July, there must be something more to it than meets the eye. More here.

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CREW URGES DOJ I.G. TO PROBE WHY FBI FAILED TO INVESTIGATE FOLEY EMAILS SENT BY CREW THIS SUMMER
Administration Officials Must Explain Lack of Action
Washington, DC – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) wrote to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office today to ask for an investigation into why the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to begin investigating Rep. Mark Foley’s emails to a former House page as soon as the Bureau learned about the emails in July 2006.

On July 21, 2006 CREW received a set of emails, allegedly from Rep. Foley to a former House page, which it sent to the FBI later that day. The emails, posted at www.citizensforethics.org, asked the page, who had recently left the Hill, his age, how school was going and what he wanted for his birthday. Rep. Foley also requested the boy’s photograph.

David Steele

Oct 2 2006, 07:12 PM

I've noted elsewhere that this angle needs to be pursued. It looks like a Special Prosecutor is in order, but will the WH give one up?

cowboy democrat

Oct 3 2006, 06:09 AM

You are right, Aleman. Listening to C-Span this morning, I heard Melanie Sloan of CREW say that the FBI was notified in July. Maybe this will be the end of governing by bullet points and hypocritical cotton candy morality.

Mr Kelly

Oct 3 2006, 06:18 AM

QUOTE(aleman1948 @ Oct 2 2006, 09:10 PM)

Yet another shoe is falling in this ongoing and still developing story. Apparently the FBI was given the emails in JULY of this year. If this investigation has been ongoing since July, there must be something more to it than meets the eye. More here.

much more to come on this

heard an interview with a former page, he was told to "be careful around foley" WTF?

IVEATCH

Oct 3 2006, 07:32 AM

Apparently this information was also forwarded to several newspapers as well. Some of the Florida Newspapers that received the information were not by nature Republican friendly. None of the Editors thought there was enough to run a story on it, however.

Best Regards,

aleman

Oct 3 2006, 07:40 AM

QUOTE(IVEATCH @ Oct 3 2006, 09:32 AM)

Apparently this information was also forwarded to several newspapers as well. Some of the Florida Newspapers that received the information were not by nature Republican friendly. None of the Editors thought there was enough to run a story on it, however.

Best Regards,

I have not heard that. Do you have a link or source on this?

Senihele

Oct 3 2006, 09:09 AM

QUOTE(aleman1948 @ Oct 3 2006, 09:40 AM)

I have not heard that. Do you have a link or source on this?

I heard the interview on CNN..Sunday morning I believe. The reason they didn't feel hey had enough to run it centered on editorial policy. When it first came out they had the name of one page who did not, along with his family, want to be named. Their editorial policy was not to run a story on unnamed sources. Once they had the second page who did step forward they could run the piece.

aleman

Oct 3 2006, 12:06 PM

QUOTE(Senihele @ Oct 3 2006, 11:09 AM)

I heard the interview on CNN..Sunday morning I believe. The reason they didn't feel hey had enough to run it centered on editorial policy. When it first came out they had the name of one page who did not, along with his family, want to be named. Their editorial policy was not to run a story on unnamed sources. Once they had the second page who did step forward they could run the piece.

Thanks, Seni.

J_dogg82

Oct 3 2006, 01:55 PM

QUOTE(IVEATCH @ Oct 3 2006, 08:32 AM)

Apparently this information was also forwarded to several newspapers as well. Some of the Florida Newspapers that received the information were not by nature Republican friendly. None of the Editors thought there was enough to run a story on it, however.

Best Regards,

They probably had only unvarifiable emails without any substintive coroboration. However the FBI, and The Congress of The United States have far more resources and access to government information then a Florida newspaper. I can't even name one right off hand.