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BUZZFLASH...
The congressional pages have known about Foley for years, according to Matthew Loraditch, a Maryland college senior who runs the U.S. House Page Alumni Association's Internet message board.
See article from TCPalm below.
The good news for the pages:
"At the age we were when those things happened, 16 or 17, when you see that kind of stuff, most people our ages know what's going on and know what's happening," Loraditch said. "You're not like a little kid who can be roped into that."
Loraditch said his friends all thought the messages were disturbing, but they did not report them, either because they did not think the messages posed a serious threat or because they might have worried about career consequences.
Also, for those poor, deluded souls who keep trying to conflate this scandal with the Lewinsky scandal: Lewinsky was a 22 year old consenting adult, not a minor. There are obvious ethical concerns because of the age and power difference in both cases, but Foley's repeated attempts to seduce minors are a wholly different and far more severe ethical and moral breach.
Again, the full article from the TCPalm is here:
http://www.tcpalm.com/...
(I looked for a related diary and did not find one. Let me know if I have duplicated someone else and I will delete.)