A new take on the beginnings and purposes of those IM's sent by Foley.
The key to the scandal with the Congressional pages is with those ex-pages who are now working as Congressional staff members. This whole process of sending suggestive E-Mails to pages sounds like a culling process to identify those pages who are leaning toward the gay side, who are already gay, or who are willing to go along with the advances of gay Congressmen to get a cushy staff job. All those ex-pages who are now out of the loop are only reporting that they didn't respond positively when they received these suggestive Instant Messages and E-Mails. Have any pages been actively molested by Congressmen, and did they get the reward of a cushy job as a staff member for accepting that molestation? The key resides with ex-pages who are now Congressional staffers.
On another level, this has sounded like a lover's quarrel where a rejected or replaced gay staffer is getting back at Foley for finding a new gay lover.