Rahm Emanuel Linked to Release of Foley Emails

[Deeper_Background]

A new report raises questions about Rahm Emanuel’s assertion that he and his staff knew nothing about disgraced Rep. Mark Foley’s e-mails to former House pages.

In an October 8 interview with ABC News, the Illinois Democrat said "no – never saw them” when asked if he knew about the e-mails or instant messages between Foley and former pages before news of the messages broke.

Asked if he was "aware” of them, Emanuel repeated, "We never saw them.”

But the new House Ethics Committee report on the scandal, released on December 8, discloses that a senior member of Emanuel’s staff did know about the e-mail and instant messages, according to Holly Bailey’s column in Newsweek.

The report indicates that the e-mails were given to a top Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee staffer in the fall of 2005, more than a year before Foley resigned.

At that time, Emanuel was chairman of the DCCC.

Matt Miller, who was communications director for the House Democratic Caucus in 2005, has been revealed as the source who leaked the e-mails to the press. He told the ethics committee that he also shared the e-mails with the communications director at the DCCC.

Bill Burton was (and remains) the DCCC communications director and a top aide to Emanuel.

Miller, who got the e-mails through social and political contacts, testified that he thought Burton might pass on the e-mails to a reporter.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/12/11/103118.shtml?s=tn

 

[Football_Bat]

Last I saw, ABC News didn't require an oath to be interviewed by.

Move along, nothing to see here.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Last I saw, ABC News didn't require an oath to be interviewed by.

Move along, nothing to see here.

Yes, because the most ethical Congress in history judges itself based on whether it took an oath before it made statements.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Excuse me.
Didn't all this take place during the worst Congress ever?
I think Emanuel's an overrated tool, but this doesn't let the people who were wielding the actualy, you know, power off the hook.

 

[HeinekenMan]

Good God. Give it a rest. Your party's guy was on the verge of raping teenage boys.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Excuse me.
Didn't all this take place during the worst Congress ever?
I think Emanuel's an overrated tool, but this doesn't let the people who were wielding the actualy, you know, power off the hook.

It doesn't let either side of the hook. Both sides lied about what they knew and when they knew it.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Excuse me.
Didn't all this take place during the worst Congress ever?
I think Emanuel's an overrated tool, but this doesn't let the people who were wielding the actualy, you know, power off the hook.

It doesn't let either side of the hook. Both sides lied about what they knew and when they knew it.

Uh, no.
One side lied about what they knew and whent hey knew it, AND HAD THE POWER TO STOP IT, and refused to do so, for months, even shutting out the Democratic member of the Ethics Committee on the grounds that he was a Democratic congressman.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Of course, the WSJ was full speed ahead, blowing Hastert on today's editorial page, regarding all this.

They have NO shame.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

IT'S JUST THE SAME!
WAAAAHHHHHH!
The Republican platform for the next two years.
Book it.

 

[hondo]

Good God. Give it a rest. Your party's guy was on the verge of raping teenage boys.

Which was actually done for the first time by the Dems' Gerry Studds.

Foley is a douchebag and should have never been in a position of authority, nor within 100 yards on a teen-aged boy. But if it was proven that a Republican had done this to a Democratic Congressman, you people would be screaming about dirty tricks and invasion of privacy. Please don't pretend otherwise.

 

[hondo]

IT'S JUST THE SAME!
WAAAAHHHHHH!
The Republican platform for the next two years.
Book it.

And if crying means a desire to hold everyone to the same standard, then so be it. But we know that liberals and Democrats don't hold themselves to any standard, because they think they're on the side of the Angels and always 100 percent right.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Good God. Give it a rest. Your party's guy was on the verge of raping teenage boys.

Which was actually done for the first time by the Dems' Gerry Studds.

Foley is a douchebag and should have never been in a position of authority, nor within 100 yards on a teen-aged boy. But if it was proven that a Republican had done this to a Democratic Congressman, you people would be screaming about dirty tricks and invasion of privacy. Please don't pretend otherwise.

Done what?
How do we know what happened with Gerry Studds? Because the House ethics process WORKED, foof. It wasn't being run by enablers like Hastert, Boehner, Shymkus, and that dunce from New York, who froze out the committee members from the other party for the political advantages of covering it up.
Let me be clear. If it were up to me, and I were asked, I would have replied, damn right we gave this stuff to the media. This rubber-stamp, cover-up Republican majority didn't give a damn about this predator, didn't care enough to investigate, so we needed to bring public pressure on this important issue. But I'm not Rahm Emanuel, World's Smartest Human.
And there pretty plainly were no standards in the Congress just passed. Which is why so many of them are not coming back.

 

[cranberry]

And if crying means a desire to hold everyone to the same standard, then so be it. But we know that liberals and Democrats don't hold themselves to any standard, because they think they're on the side of the Angels and always 100 percent right.

Side of the Angels? The Democrats you're saying this about?

 

[HeinekenMan]

Good God. Give it a rest. Your party's guy was on the verge of raping teenage boys.

Which was actually done for the first time by the Dems' Gerry Studds.

Foley is a douchebag and should have never been in a position of authority, nor within 100 yards on a teen-aged boy. But if it was proven that a Republican had done this to a Democratic Congressman, you people would be screaming about dirty tricks and invasion of privacy. Please don't pretend otherwise.

I've seen one too many of these deals where you tell me what I'd do if I were in your shoes. You have no ****ing right to judge me. You don't ****ing know me. So don't go there. Judge me on what I do and not what you imagine I might not do.

In any case, you're certainly not much of a character given that your political leanings are toward the party that laughs in the face of civil liberties, minority rights, workers rights and and the true nature of family values, which happen to say that it's unjust to pass sweeping tax cuts for the rich when a growing number of Americans fall into the category of the working poor, a class of people who must turn to charities during the holidays.

 

[Killick]

OMG the Dems blew the whistle? Oh, Christ! Wow, what a scandal!

Oh, wait... that's right.

SO?

 

[old_tony]

OMG the Dems blew the whistle? Oh, Christ! Wow, what a scandal!

Oh, wait... that's right.

SO?

It's not that the Dems blew the whistle, it's that they knew and waited a year till they did so. Kind of makes those "Republicans left kids in danger" claim a little hypocritical.

 

[HackyMcHack]

Democrats lie. Republicans cover up. A pox on both their houses.

I voted libertarian in the '06 election, with hopes of forcing a runoff (welcome to the South). Had their been a lib in my congressional district, there would have been a runoff.

If the Southern runoff was in effect nationwide (must have 50 percent plus one of the votes cast to win, otherwise top two go again a month later in a winner-take-all vote), third parties would have a lot more power. Or, to drop a Canadian reference here, the balance of power.

 

[Killick]

OMG the Dems blew the whistle? Oh, Christ! Wow, what a scandal!

Oh, wait... that's right.

SO?

It's not that the Dems blew the whistle, it's that they knew and waited a year till they did so. Kind of makes those "Republicans left kids in danger" claim a little hypocritical.

Ugh. Shell game. Nevermind the pedophile over there, ladies and gents, look at the these folks who KNEW about it. Gasp! They're horrible people. Oh, the pedophile? Yep, that's unfortunate. But the REAL evil is over here -- evil, evil, Dems.