http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/100506/news2.html

Longtime Republican was source of e-mails
By Alexander Bolton

The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page says the documents came to him from a House GOP aide.

That aide has been a registered Republican since becoming eligible to vote, said the source, who showed The Hill public records supporting his claim.

The same source, who acted as an intermediary between the aide-turned-whistleblower and several news outlets, says the person who shared the documents is no longer employed in the House.

But the whistleblower was a paid GOP staffer when the documents were first given to the media.

The source bolstered the claim by sharing un-redacted e-mails in which the former page first alerted his congressional sponsor’s office of Foley’s attentions. The copies of these e-mails, now available to the public, have the names of senders and recipients blotted out.

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I am staying out of this whole mess, but I am rather disturbed by the The Rights defense of the GOP Leaderships cover-up. This is low for even you Mitch.

Flash

Funny Flash, i figured someone as objective as you would have taken this part of that article into account:

Alexander’s chief of staff then told aides in Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (R-Ill.) office about the communication and showed the e-mails to Jeff Trandahl, clerk of the House. That fall, Trandahl and Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), chairman of the House Page Board, met Foley and told him to stop contacting the former page.

But while the e-mails were concerning enough to prompt this action, editors and reporters at various publications did not consider them remarkable enough to write about.

The person who provided the e-mails to several D.C.-based news outlets in July claimed to have no knowledge of who gave them to two Florida papers last year.

The media (and pretty much anybody else who's actually read the e-mails) didn't hthink they were any big deal.

I have a strong feeling that Stop Sex Predators' source was a different person.

But that's just me. I'm not "objective" like you.

I'm objective enough to just stay out of this very sensitive and awful injustice. But the Right is grasping at straws to try and pin something, ANYTHING on a Democrat rather then devoting that energy to rectify the injustice.

Flash

"But the Right is grasping at straws to try and pin something, ANYTHING on a Democrat rather then devoting that energy to rectify the injustice."

Rubbish. I've done everything I CAN to "rectify" this - by denouncing what Foley did.

So, Flash - does Foley's crime excuse the possibility (which looks more likely every day) that the Dems cynically played this story for maximum political effect?

I'm sorry to see you get so upset at the thought that Democrats might also play political hardball from time to time, Mary.

Oops, did I say "Mary"? Cause I meant to say "Mitch."

By the way, the tears are making your mascara run.

"I'm sorry to see you get so upset at the thought that Democrats might also play political hardball..."

...with the well-being of children.

It SHOULD disgust any human being.

"It SHOULD disgust any human being."

Since when is AC a human being? I'm of the opinion AC is some sort of Java-Script bot written to troll this ThunderJournal and spew snark.

Foot - The 16-year-old Louisiana boy gives copies of Foley's e-mails to the St. Petersburg Times, describing them as "very inappropriate." The paper assigns two reporters to investigate. The paper says it decided not to write a story because of the seriousness of what would be implied, and because the boy and the family would not go on the record.

The Miami Herald says it, too, received a copy of the e-mails, but it decided not to go public because the messages were not sexually explicit and were subject to interpretation.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6189173

Mitch,

check your email

"does Foley's crime excuse the possibility (which looks more likely every day) that the Dems cynically played this story for maximum political effect?"

No, but why are you so committed to wallow in speculation when we already know the GOP leadership downplayed the story to protect their political power. One is a known, the other is an attempt to spin and distract through speculation.

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I'm sorry to see you get so upset at the thought that Democrats might also play political hardball..."

...with the well-being of children.

It SHOULD disgust any human being.
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it should, but it appears that it only disgusts you if you can dig up a Democrat doing it. Your continued defense of the GOP leadership and their coverup is simply amazing.

Flash

"I am staying out of this whole mess, but I am rather disturbed by the The Rights defense of the GOP Leaderships cover-up. This is low for even you Mitch."

You got a lot of balls to think you're in any position to judge the ethics of anyone else Flash...you get a "fellowship" stipend to post this or was it a freebie?

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I've suggested that Hastert step down from the speakers podium...we Republicans expect our leaders to be above reproach and he fucked up.

But that doesn't mean I don't think we should not be turning over rocks to see what kind of Dumocrap invertibrate scurries out of the light.

It is inconcievable that there aren't Dumocraps who knew what was going on.

"You got a lot of balls to think you're in any position to judge the ethics of anyone else Flash...you get a "fellowship" stipend to post this or was it a freebie?

Swiftee you lieing sack of . . . Oh you're not worth it. Typical GOP BS pushing that which they know is not true to distract from that which we know is true.

Flash

BTW Flash, you also got brass to bring up "the well being of children" seeing as you are member of, and an appologist for, an institution that sends thousands of kids out on the streets functionally illiterate...

Hell, you're not only a member of that institution (public schools), you're a prominent member of the political party that maintains the disgusting status quo for it's own financial and political benefit.

So please; sell your smarmy, self-righteous politically driven pap to your pals at MinMoni...you're making me ill.

Swiftee prattled: "But that doesn't mean I don't think we should not be turning over rocks to see what kind of Dumocrap invertibrate scurries out of the light."

You do that, Not-So-Swiftee. Obviously this whole thing about Foley gaying it up with kids is a Democratic conspiracy.

Also let us know if you ever turn up Nicole Brown Simpson's *real* killers.

Dumbass.

Oh, I take it then that you are not one of our local lefty bloggers for hire...it's hard to tell what's what in the midst of all of the denial going on in the left wing blahgosphere these days.

Pfft, where there's buggery involved, whether acted out or just fantisized, there's sure to be a dumocrap behind it somewhere assclown.

And as any parent of a public school student can attest, the dumocraps are masters of screwing kids if there's a buck or a vote involved.

Swiftee, it must be difficult for you to keep your head above water with all of that foam and spittle flying out of your mouth.

Not a bit. I'm standing on the heads of a couple of dumocraps.

" it appears that it only disgusts you if you can dig up a Democrat doing it. "

Untrue, as a matter of record. My disgust with *Foley's acts* are a matter of public record in numerous forums.

As far as any "coverup"? Well, that sort of talk is premature to the point of wishful thinking on the part of Dems.

Mitch, dammit, check your email!!!!

this may be the SITD quote of the year!

"you're a prominent member of the political party that maintains the disgusting status quo for it's own financial and political benefit."

Taken out of context it is hard to tell which party he is talking about, looks to me that quote can easlily be applied to Delay, Abramoff, and Ney. Let's face it, 95% of all politicians ingrained in Washington are trying to maintain the status quo.

Flash-

Sorry, but when you say:

"we already know the GOP leadership downplayed the story to protect their political power"

you're spinning too. Let's wait 'til all the fact come out about exactly who knew what when before we start assigning motives.