Oct 01 2006
Did CREW Leave A Predator Free For Partisan Gain?
OK, now the Foley scandal widens yet again. First off, Foley has all the signs of a sexual predator of children and he should have been investigated day one. Quietly, but investigated. Second, the lack of action by the House leadership was negligent. I understand wanting to trust your comrades while all of you are under constant, hyped and unfair attacks (which is why gotcha journalism and politics only hides true crimes, it doesn’t bring them to light). But now Mac Ranger has learned (as well as Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House) that a liberal group, CREW, knew of these incidents and may have also let Foley run amok so they could play a game of political gotcha. If this is true they are also guilty of hiding a crime and using a crime for political gain. I cannot stress this enough, no House seat or election cycle is worth a child’s life at the hands of a sexual predator. All of these people need to be held responsible. Folely for his criminal acts. The House leadership for their negligence, and CREW for their criminal acts of hiding the crime to gain partisan advantage. The House leadership is the only one where intentions where not to harm children, instead the failed to treat these accusations (among hundreds they get daily) seriously. CREW’s possible intentions were just as exploitative as Folely’s, if true.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5907
Clarice’s Article was GREAT! And so was your post AJ!
AJ;
I dislike Foley very much, but has he shown an inclination to young children? He should still go, this is just so unacceptable… but I am not sure Foley committed a crime nor am I sure that Hastert understood what he was dealing with. Perhaps he just did not want to see it. That is no excuse but we do not need to make this worse than it is.
I hate to belabor this but I think I got kind of sensitive about it when Sheehan kept talking about our children dying in Iraq. They are not children and 16 is the age of consent in DC. So Foley might be a creep and a pervert but he might not have broken a law. I suppose time will tell.
What this incident puts off track is ANY ABILITY TO GET ALONG!
In other words, DC was the kind of town where people met “from across the aisle” to do the work necessary.
Now, with the donks losing steam they are also a SWAMP. In other words, the republicans never did this! And, the republicans were in the minority for a long time, to boot. FDR, for instance, did NOT have the problems we are now getting from democrats, across the board.
They positively refuse “to work together.”
I don’t know what’s going to happen on November 7th. I still think most Americans are happy enough with Bush. And, consider “the progress” we have to be on par with what we have in our “other long term war,” the war on drugs. Nobody is asking for re-alignments, here.
But Americans did expect, once elections took place, that both sides would cooperate as best as possible. And, now? NO MORE.
How do you put up with this Dan RatherGATE type of garbage?
Woodward’s also tossed crap into the election cycle with his new book, which looks like a bomb. (Yeah. A thrown bomb. By the OUT OF POWER GEORGE TENET.)
I guess we can look at how Bush operates. Mostly he ignores these dogs. (So did IKE! Who parlayed his vascilations in WW2 into the presidency. While Patton and MacArthur, BOTH, did the heavier lifting.) That’s just the way it is.
The military and the CIA seem to be places for SWIVELING CHAIRS. A place where once George S. Patton said IT NEVER LEADS TO GLORY! As a matter of fact, in the field, during WW2, Patton always discredited officers who told him “they got their information from DC.) That’s the way it was.
And, it’s gonna probably be the way it goes, ahead, as well.
As the donks seem to be scraping the bottom of their barrel.
What will Pelosi do with her rag on November 7th? What if Karl Rove knows “how to get out the vote.” And, enough Americans are sickened by the displays created by the MSM?
The stuff Hastert knew about was the overly friendly emails.
The im’s were from before the LAST house election, why would they only surface now.
Thank you, Clarice. And thanks for reminding us about Mel Reynolds!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Reynolds
If the teen and his parents wanted to keep these e-mails under wraps how did this blog and ABC and Foley’s opponent get wind of it? Who was the teen who wanted the St. Petersburg paper to print his e-mail? And where did the sexually explicit e-mails come from if the American Thinker could not come up with them? Evidently other papers had this news(not the sexually explicit part) but didn’t print it. So many questions. So few answers. One thing is clear though, with the dems involved it has to be sneaky and underhanded. They don’t know how to work any other way. It really pains me that half this country votes for these scum. If Foley is not a sexual deviant, then he is stupid for even getting in touch with this teen and should not be in congress for either reason. He should have resigned last year and avoided all this brouhaha.
HHHmmm…CREW is also the lawyer(s) for the Wilsons…
Surely, this isn’t the reverse “October Surprise” planned by the dems?
Love you Aj but I have to disagree. Hastert had no more than the St Pete paper and other media did and those emails were innocuous. You are falling into the trap set by the propagandists who set out to hurt hastert and the Republican leaders. You conflated the innocent emails with the sexual IM’s which no one but ABC claims to have seen–and then only in the last week.
Clarice mentions in her article that the identities of CREW’s board are largely secret, except for Mark Penn and David Berger.
Wonder how much longer they can keep their membership secret if the FBI probe goes forward?
Clarice,
I have been backing off a bit on Hastert, but the warning signs were there (and he earned some caution with Jefferson). I am now more open to the idea that, in a see of false charges hitting everyday, the leadership could have been duped to some degree. But with pages, etc, they should have done a bit more scratching to see what was there. It should be a reminder to take certain charges seriously at first, at least to make sure. And it should be a reminder why people should not cry “Wolf” all the time. The parable is still true.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5909
AJ, How can the Dems suggest that on the basis of the innocuous emails (and sub rosa the suspicion that Foley was gay) Hastert should have launched a full bore investigation while supporting those who insist the Boy Scouts should permit gay scout masters?
Clarice: I see your American Thinker article is getting some good attention and rightfully so. You make some excellent points.
That mysterious web site:
http://stopsexpredators.blogspot.com/2006/09/shocking-emails.html
and the curious way in which this story got out should have more people asking questions about the motives of those who held back this information.
And let’s give Hastert a break. I see the Washington Times is calling for him to resign. Who thinks that’s a good idea one month before an election?
Sadly, we’ve seen this play before: the GOP reacts to scandal by tossing anyone slightly tainted under the bus and Democrats circle the wagons to protect their own and laugh at us.
Foley should have resigned. But to say that the House GOP leadership should follow suit is stupid and self-defeating.