Hotline: Hill reports longtime Republican source of Foley emails, not Dems

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.thehill.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.

These revelations mean that Republicans who are calling for probes to discover what Democratic leaders and staff knew about Foley’s improper exchanges with under-age pages will likely be unable to show that the opposition party orchestrated the scandal now roiling the GOP just a month away from the midterm elections.

[napi21]

1. If it would have been a Dem, I wouldn't have faulted them, but

I'm glad it wasn't. It takes ANOTHER argument off their plate!!!!

[flpoljunkie]

2. Hastert, in Chicago Tribune article, blames--you guessed it--Bill Clinton!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-061004foley,1,3257472.story?coll=chi-news-hed

When asked about a groundswell of discontent among the GOP's conservative base over his handling of the issue, Hastert said: "I think the base has to realize after awhile, who knew about it? Who knew what, when? When the base finds out who's feeding this monster, they're not going to be happy. The people who want to see this thing blow up are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by George Soros."

He went on to suggest that operatives aligned with former President Bill Clinton knew about the allegations and were perhaps behind the disclosures in the closing weeks before the Nov. 7 midterm elections, but he offered no hard proof.

"All I know is what I hear and what I see," the speaker said. "I saw Bill Clinton's adviser, Richard Morris, was saying these guys knew about this all along. If somebody had this info, when they had it, we could have dealt with it then."

[napi21]

3. He's STILL aligning Morris with BC????

Morris switched sides a long time ago Denny!!!!!!

[jackstraw45]

4. Corporate Media not touching this...of COURSE

I mean, Foley is a DEM, right?

:sarcasm:

[Marnieworld]

5. The fact that they are blaming and assuming it was a Dem

proves that they think that all Repubs would automatically cover up the crime to preserve the party.

It's an admission of guilt if you ask me. :patriot:

[myrna minx]

6. This means that the repubs were caught completely off guard on this one.

Bwahahaha. They thought they could use intimation and speculation to blow smoke elsewhere to change the story. Concluding that the whistle blower is a Repub shatters their desperate attempt for spin. :rofl: This means that they don;t KNOW anything and are in massive damage control. I bet they are scared to death about what else is coming down the pike.