[funsec] How ABC News help out a Congressional page

[Richard M. Smith]

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 at netzero.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:04 PM
To: dudevanwinkle at gmail.com
Cc: rms at bsf-llc.com; funsec at 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