Hastert etal will say "We Can't Comment on Ongoing Criminal Investigation"

That is why Hastert is asking for a "full" criminal investigation which includes those "outside" Congress.

That will allow them to stall the Ethics Investigation within the House until after the midterm elections. They have sealed the office, computers, files of Foley's office.

And this investigation will allow them to search for those who provided the information to ABC News, and interrogate reporters to find the leak and punish them.

This is not playing defense, this is part of the push back and hiding of information until after the midterm elections are played out.

:shrug:

...the first order of business is to stop people from talking, coordinate the stories, and put a news blackout in place to deelevate this from page one and the MSM.

All the typical levers of manipulating public opinion, but front and center is to make it drop from public interest by starving the story of new information and diverting the public's attention to another topic.

WH and injustice department?????

... and provide protection for top Repubs who have muddied the water so far.

the criminals, YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM.

it already has... the republicans are flailing
trying to get ahead of this scandal.
It's hilarious.. and they keep trying their old tricks...
bwhahahaha.. they are so predictable
and SUCH LOSERS

... there are already movements to marginalize GOP wrongdoing, give those who covered up a pass, and starve this story for new information.

Next up? How Dems are using a tragedy for political purposes --

The odds were against such things, until recently.

...what is there to investigate here? Foley will go down after being exposed, but the House Repub Leadership who covered this up have a better chance of winning the lottery every week for the next year than getting charged with any wrongdoing arising out of the DOJ investigation of this matter.

The DOJ is a lever they are pulling for cover, not to actually reveal anything the House Repub Leadership does not want exposed.

info...

i see no way anyone could be a leaker when it was exposing a criminal..

this was not national security..in fact i would say exposing this protected our national security..since Foley could have been blackmailed by a foreign country or entity..

i do not think there is a law that says if you know about a crime, you can not come forward about it..in fact if one didn't come forward..that would or should be a crime ...unless it is classified..and then the person would have to go into the whistle blower protection prgm

but did a law get passed i missed that says..if you catch a congress person committing pedophilia against a child..it is top secret??

i feel strongly about this..i think whoever went to abc ..IS A HERO TO CHILDREN!! AND DID THE RIGHT THING!!


FLY

.... dollars to doughnuts that this information was well known among Repub House Leaders for a long time, with a proverbial lid placed on the dissemination of that information publicly.

Most likely members of Congress, the pages themselves, and reporters and newspapers knew, and whoever violated the unwritten rule against "leaking" this information must be found and punished for being the traitors to their party that they are. Otherwise, you cannot get total compliance from the Repub Party to back what Bush wants.

they went to the FBI with them...

it could have been anyone with "crew" who told ABC..or it could have been any one of the children that went to ABC..
orrr someone in the FBI..

hell it could have been alll of them..or one of them!!

this isn't a "leak"..this is truth...truth about crimes to children..

fuck party..its about children's safety..and welfare..

fly

...It really is the most astounding fact revealed thus far, and most people are glossing right over it.

IF the FBI had this since summer from CREW or any other source, then the entire FBI is complicit for not taking action to protect underage pages who remained in close personal contact with Foley.

fall and never reported it!

St Pete Times knew (Foley) Nov.2005..Held story


..........they knew some info but held it.........they knew in Nov 2005



In November, the St. Petersburg Times contacted U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., after obtaining a series of e-mails from Foley to one of Alexander's former pages. In one of the e-mails, Foley had requested the page's photo, and the page forwarded the e-mails to an Alexander staffer asking if he was right to see it as "sick, sick, sick, sick."

Foley told the Times it was an innocent exchange, and Alexander told the Times in November he was unaware of the matter until the newspaper called. The Times never published a story, and never saw sexually explicit e-mails from Foley.

The "internal review" released by Hastert on Saturday says in fall 2005, Alexander's chief of staff contacted the Speaker's Office about Foley's e-mail exchange and that Alexander was concerned about it. The speaker's deputy chief of staff and in-house counsel told Alexander's aide to contact the House clerk, who oversees the page program.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/01/State/Scandal_leaves_...


they are just as complicit in the crimes i believe!!

fly