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RE: How ABC News help out a Congressional page
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:25:37 -0400
It has been pretty clear since Rep. Foley resigned he had a problem with going after teenage males. However, the IMs conversations that ABC News published are of questionable quality. We really don't know how well they were verified and with whom before being published by ABC News. The reason for my concern is that Brian Ross of ABC News has had problems with sources before: http://www.computerbytesman.com/911/fishy.htm We also don't know who was shopping this Foley story around to the press since July and if they had some other motive besides protecting pages from Foley. It's unfortunate that former pages have now become pawns in this politicized media battle. Foley really should have been dealt with back in 2003 or 2004 when his aide brought up the issue to Hastert's office. Clearly this problem wasn't going to just disappear. Richard -----Original Message----- From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:04 PM To: dudevanwinkle () gmail com Cc: rms () bsf-llc com; funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] How ABC News help out a Congressional page Dunno. This doesn't sound like much of a "prank" to me: [snip] "Three More Former Pages Accuse Foley of Online Sexual Approaches" Three more former congressional pages have come forward to reveal what they call "sexual approaches" over the Internet from former Congressman Mark Foley. The pages served in the classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002. They independently approached ABC News after the Foley resignation through the Brian Ross & the Investigative Team's tip line on ABCNews.com. None wanted their names used because of the sensitive nature of the communications. [snip] More: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/three_more_form.html - ferg _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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