NBC: investigators had yet to find evidence that federal laws were violate

sabra

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Fri Oct-06-06 10:06 AM
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NBC: investigators had yet to find evidence that federal laws were violate

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/10/06/5888.aspx

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As of Thursday afternoon, as a senior federal law enforcement official told NBC's Pete Williams, investigators had yet to find evidence that federal laws were violated. In part, that's be cause of how federal statutes have been written. In part, it's because the age of consent in Washington, DC, is 16 (at least, it was during the time period in question here). And in part, it's an issue of the kind of behavior that federal prosecutors have considered a prosecutable violation in the past. NBC's Jim Popkin reports that FBI agents from the DC field office spent several hours yesterday interviewing Kirk Fordham, Foley's former chief of staff.

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Kagemusha

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Fri Oct-06-06 10:12 AM
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1. So grooming the nation's children for sex is still perfectly legal.

So much for Foley's grand crusade.

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LostinVA

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Fri Oct-06-06 10:14 AM
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2. But age of consent and being a minor are different things

Where sex laws are concerned.

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tulsakatz

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Fri Oct-06-06 10:22 AM
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3. so if he did nothing wrong........

...why did he resign?

Even if 16 is legal in DC, what he did was still wrong!

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