Did the Democraps sit on the Foley issue until it behooved them politically to release this information?

Question

P.S. I don't support either side. The Repubicans are dirty, warmongering, fascists. It's just interesting that the Dems wanna act like they didn't know anything till shortly before elections. They knew what was going on just like their red brothers.

Answer 1

It called the "OCTOBER SURPRISE" its the Demotards last ditch chance at winning an election.........lol

Answer 2

yes.

Dems Offered Foley Emails to Reporter Five Months Ago
Matthew Sheffield October 10, 2006

In all the media fuss about whether the GOP House leadership knew about former representative Mark Foley's behavior, hardly anyone in the press seems interested in whether Democrats knew about the story and declined to expose Foley's conduct, thus "putting at risk" the congressional pages in the way we constantly hear that Speaker Hastert and others did.

Turns out, Democrats did know about Foley's antics. According to Ken Silverstein, a writer for the liberal Harper's magazine, he was approached with the story way back in the month of May--by a Democrat.




House Majority Leader John Boehner has charged that the release of the Foley documents so close to the elections ?is concerning, at a minimum.? Meanwhile, accounts I've heard about the FBI's initial inquiries suggest the bureau is as interested in uncovering how the story came to public attention as it is in investigating Foley's actions.

The Republican leadership is lying when they claim that Democrats have engineered an ?October Surprise?; there was never a plan undermine the G.O.P. or to destroy Hastert personally, as the speaker has vaingloriously suggested. I know this with absolute certainty because Harper?s was offered the story almost five months ago and decided, after much debate, not to run it here on Washington Babylon.


In May, a source put me in touch with a Democratic operative who provided me with the now-infamous emails that Foley had sent in 2004 to a sixteen-year-old page. He also provided several emails that the page sent to the office of Congressman Rodney Alexander, a Louisiana Republican who had sponsored him when he worked on Capitol Hill. ?Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously, This freaked me out,? the page wrote in one email. In the fall of 2005, my source had provided the same material to the St. Petersburg Times?and I presume to The Miami Herald?both which decided against publishing stories.


It was a Democrat who brought me the emails, but comments he made and common sense strongly suggest they were originally leaked by a Republican office. And while it's entirely possible that Democratic officials became aware of the accusations against Foley, the source was not working in concert with the national Democratic Party. This person was genuinely disgusted by Foley's behavior, amazed that other publications had declined to publish stories about the emails, and concerned that Foley might still be seeking contact with pages.



Despite Silverstein's attempt to spin things leftward, the fact remains: Democrats knew about Mark Foley and his affinity for congressional pages. Don't look for it to be reported on tonight's news, though.

Gateway Pundit has more. A.J. Strata's summary is must-read.


http://newsbusters.org/node/8228

Answer 3

Of course they did, it has been the MO of the democratic party since the Reagan administration, to use the media to divide the country. They have yet to, in the last 20 years, do anything to support our country or do anything beyond extending their power. Unfortunately Republicans have fallen into that same trap and until the party system is dissolved we will stand as "one country divided".

Answer 4

This is less a matter of of political party than it is a case of adults (of many backgrounds) not accepting the responsibility of an adult and putting an end to this long ago.

Being a responsible adult has nothing to do with political party. We all understand what is ethical and moral and what is not. When we come across that which is not, we (as responsible adults) and change what is wrong.

Answer 5

If they were going to do that then why not wait until the big election. HHHmmmmm, sort of reminds me of what the Reps did to Bill Clinton with Monica. Yeah, that sounds very familiar. To bad Monica and Bill were consenting adults and what they really did was between Bill, Hillary and Monica. Now Foley on the other hand is a pediphile stalking young boys.......makes you wonder why the Reps knew about it and hid the facts.......(scratching head and wondering)

Answer 6

No. What actually happened was that the Democrats 'infiltrated' the Republicans with a gay (FOLEY) All this 'scandal' is a very clever trick of the 'Secular Progressives', (that's Bill O'Reilly's new name for us, I suppose it's meant to be sarcastic or something like that, but I like it) to embarrass the Republicans right before the elections. Republicans don't have sole access to the 'Dirty Tricks Department', you know.
The author of this 'vicious scam' refuses to have his name made public, but Bill Clinton was recently heard to mutter: 'Revenge is sweet' or something like that.

Answer 7

That's bull hockey! The people who "sat on" the Foley predation on underage boys were the GOP leadership. They have known about this sick individual for at least five years.

It's pathetic to try to blame Democrats for the despicable actions of the GOP, but it's not surprising. I haven't seen a Republican take actually responsibility for their screw ups in many years. Instead, they try to blame others.

Answer 8

It was a group called CREW ( a non profit watchdog group) that supplied EDITED e-mails to the FBI. They deny this of course, but you can view the e-mails side by side here:
http://tailrank.com/639546/Watchdog-Group-Disputes-FBI-s-Claims-on-E-Mails

CREW if funded by liberal activist George Soros. It's not hard to figure out what was going on here.

Answer 9

I heard Fox News and two FL newspapers were sitting on the story before ABC broke the news.

Answer 10

no, it's just an astounding coincidence it happened a few weeks before an election for which democrats have little hope

Answer 11

Hastert could have released this info at any time in the past but instead chose to gamble (and lost). This is a reflection on Hastert but not on the rest of the Republican party.