WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?????
Coming from
The Washington Post:
WASHINGTON--The watchdog group that first provided the FBI with suspicious e-mails from then-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., said Thursday that FBI and Justice Department officials were attempting to cover up their inaction in the case by making false claims about the group.
OK, so what
DID the
Justice Department know, and
WHEN did they know it?
No apologies for the sensationalist headline. Sensationalism has its place in my opinion, but that is another matter.
Blaming the messenger.
I guess Congressman Foley didn't have the name of his victims tattooed on his forehead. The FBI saw no merit in the case.
The coverup is now extending to the Executive Branch....
More from WaPo:
Law enforcement officials said the allegations by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) are without merit, and stood by allegations that the group had refused to provide some information to the FBI.
AND THIS:
.. Unidentified Justice and FBI officials also told reporters that the e-mails provided by CREW were heavily redacted and that the group refused to provide unedited versions to the FBI. One law enforcement official -- speaking on condition of anonymity -- also told The Washington Post that the FBI believed CREW may have received the e-mails as early as April and that the group refused to tell the FBI how they were obtained.
Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director, said those claims are shown to be wrong by copies of the original e-mail she sent to an FBI agent. Sloan said the agent called briefly to confirm receipt of the e-mails and to ask if one of the parties was indeed Foley.
Sloan said the group sent unedited e-mails because "we wanted them to commence an investigation. We're sort of outraged that they're saying anything differently.'' The group has asked Fine's office to look into the FBI's assertions about CREW.
So it is CYB (Cover Your Butt) time at the FBI and the Justice Department too.
Pass the popcorn.
Here is the big mystery right now:
Just who is
THIS blogger?
IS it perhaps Foley's ...
DEEP THROAT?
Several news organizations have MANY people trying to track down that blogger, who may be a key to this case.
Can bloggers find him first?
And more to the point, should he be exposed, as an ethical matter?
He is pleading for anonymity. He did his part. Got the story rolling (perhaps). In the blogosphere, we are ALL citizen journalists.
I would seek an interview with the guy, but not expose him unless he agreed to go public.
OR unless I thought he was a fraud, of course.
That would be my call. I have worked as a reporter and editor for many years, and that is how I would handle it.
But I would not track him down and out him just for the scoop.
I will leave that to the Internet hacks. Chances are they will find him in a few hours, if they haven't already.
Unless Louis Freeh, the guy NOTORIOUS for his militant distain of computers, finds him first.
Someone tell Freeh what a blog is. And an IM. He is totally on this case.