Josh Marshall has a point on TPM:
With the news evolving so quickly about what members of the House GOP leadership knew about the Foley Scandal, another point hadn't become clear to me. Though I haven't seen the point made explicitly, it's clear from the late ABC News reports that there are multiple pages in question
He mentions the graphic IM exchanges and the fact that they were from 2003 and links to a story from ABCNEWS that says
...according to several former congressional pages, the congressman used the Internet to engage in sexually explicit exchanges."
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I was reading CNN's
take on the news comming from the scandal this morning when I read this (emphasis added):
GOP sources told CNN that Foley's resignation was prompted in part by concerns that other potentially politically damaging e-mails or information might surface, including exchanges with other pages that were more graphic.
This seems to me to be that explicit statement that Josh Marshall was looking for.
I know this is a short diary, but this is just an update and everything else has been rehashed.
Update [2006-9-30 11:19:40 by guyermo]:
Something else from the article. Nancy Pelosi wanted the entire Republican House Leadership investigated, and Boehner blocked it.
Boehner blocked a vote on a resolution offered by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that asked the House Ethics Committee to begin a preliminary investigation into Foley's conduct and the GOP leadership's "response" to it.
The California Democrat's resolution would have called for an investigation of "when the Republican leadership was notified and what corrective action was taken."
Instead, Boehner made a motion that the Foley matter be sent to the House Ethics Committee, which passed 409-0.
Pelosi said her resolution forced the GOP leadership to send the matter to the Ethics Committee for a bipartisan investigation.