Week 6
Mark Foley, a six-term Republican Congressman, was caught sending sexual e-mails to boys between the ages of 16 and 17, even after being confronted by ABC 7 news about the sexual pages sent to the teenage boys back in the year 2003, Foley has yet to plead his innocence to what he was accused of. Here is a small post that I found at http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/white-house-downplays-foley-scandal-as.html
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, appearing on CNN this morning, downplayed the Foley scandal. Soledad later noted that Snow “tried really hard to minimize the impact and any kind of political fallout.”
Soledad asks as “a parent” why any communication between a 16-year old page and a Member of Congress doesn’t “raise red flags, major, massive red flags.” Snow responds, “[I]t’s not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill. And there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.”
ThinkProgress has the video of the Bush White House defending a child sex predator.
“Simply naughty emails”? That’s all they were says the Bush White House. Just naughty emails between a 52 year old member of Congress and some 16 and 17 year old childen. Just naughty emails when a grown man asks a sixteen year old boy to measure his penis. Just naughty emails when a member of Congress asks a child to describe how he masturbates.
That’s why the GOP House leadership is scrambling. That’s why they had to call in the FBI. That’s why the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating.
I looked at a post from this site http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1006/p02s01-uspo.html
And found out that after Mark Foley resigned, he checked into an alcohol rehabilitation center, citing alcoholism and other ?behavioral issues?, he also announced, through his lawyer, that he was gay and sexually abused by a priest when he was younger, and that he had “never attempted to have sexual contact with a minor.”
