FBI criticized over Foley case
p2pnet.net News:- The FBI has been “admonished” by the US Justice Department’s inspector general over the Mark Foley scandal.
Foley, co-chairman of the US House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, was forced to resign after claims that he sent emails and sexually explicit IM messages to boys under the age of 18 who’d served as Congressional pages, surfaced.
But the FBI was tardy in following up on allegations centering on his activities, said reports.
A “watchdog report was triggered by a complaint filed by a nonprofit advocacy group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which had sent the FBI copies of e-mails between Foley and a former page last summer,” says the Los Angeles Times.
The law enforcement agency, “should have acted to protect teenage House pages when it initially learned last July that Rep. Mark Foley had sent disturbing e-mails to a former page, a Justice Department report concluded Monday,” says Associated Press.
“The bureau, which at the time declined to investigate, also made inaccurate statements to the news media about its decision, the report said. It said that bureau spokesmen wrongly asserted that the decision was influenced by a congressional watchdog group’s failure to provide information missing from the e-mails.”
Also See:
forced to resign – Mark Foley email scandal, October 3, 2006
Associated Press – Justice Report Faults FBI in Foley Case, January 22, 2007
Los Angeles Times – Watchdog reports bureau dismissed tip, misled public, January 22, 2007
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January 23rd, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Former FBI director J.Edgar Hoover investigated and kept files on all politicians and important leaders. The intent was not to ever charge any of them with crimes, but to use the incriminating information as blackmail if any potential adversary ever stepped out of line. As the FBI’s resources were used to spy on government and private sector leaders, Hoover’s ability to expose dirt on almost anyone gave him almost unlimited power, as he could virtually destroy anyone he wanted. In his half-century-long term as head of the FBI, no president dared try to replace him.
For the FBI to ignore Foley’s predatory homosexual pedophilia was not an oversight, but a strategy. Having politicians like Mark Foley around would serve this purpose perfectly, as he could easily be turned into a useful tool, if not an outright obedient puppet.
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:07 pm
It is also possible that Foley and J. Edna would have been buddies =)
Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover