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FBI wants to question former page
By AMIE PARNES
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON — The FBI is seeking to question a former congressional page who has been identified in Internet reports as one of the teens who exchanged lewd online messages with former Congressman Mark Foley, the former page's lawyer said Wednesday.
Who's behind group that led charge against Foley?
By LISA HOFFMAN
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay, ex-White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, and now, Mark Foley, the Florida congressman who resigned Friday as a seamy sex scandal broke around him.
What these controversial public figures have in common is that they all have found themselves in the bull's-eye of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, legal advocates leading the charge from the liberal side of the spectrum against government officials who, in their view, do wrong.
Known as CREW, the 13-person non-profit has staked a spot in the front row of the Foley affair from the time it became public last week, when sexually suggestive and explicit Internet conversations between Foley and teenage boys burst forth.
Pages remember time on Hill as carefully supervised thrill
By CAROLINE E. RUSE and BRIAN DUGGAN
They were witnesses to history, say several former House pages, and their time in the nation's capital made it hard to return to their former lives as high school students.
Jeff Leider, 22, a 2000 page sponsored by Rep.
Foley 'absolutely not a pedophile,' his lawyer says
By AMIE PARNES
Former Congressman Mark Foley is "contrite and remorseful" and sent e-mails to male teenage pages while under the influence of alcohol, but he is "absolutely, positively not a pedophile," his lawyer said Monday night.
The disgraced Florida Republican, who entered an alcohol treatment center Sunday evening, is devastated by the allegations that have surfaced over the last few days, said the lawyer, David Roth.
Foley flak leads to fingerpointing
By LISA HOFFMAN
House Speaker Dennis Hastert came under increasing flak Monday for his handling of suggestive e-mails sent by former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, as some Republican lawmakers scrambled to ditch campaign contributions they had taken from Foley and otherwise distance themselves from the erupting scandal.
Even the FBI came in for criticism.
Leaders of missing children movement slow to criticize Foley
By THOMAS HARGROVE
The resignation of Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley, after disclosure of his sexually explicit Internet communications with a former House page, sent shock waves through the missing-and-exploited-children community, which had once counted on Foley's support.
Nowhere was the confusion more obvious than at the National Center for Missing Children, which on Friday called Foley's resignation "a great loss to Florida and the nation" and concluded, "He will be missed."
"We were trying to do the right thing," said the center's president, Ernie Allen on Monday.
Timeline: Who knew what when about Foley
By LEE BOWMAN
The issue of who knew what and when about Rep. Mark Foley's contacts with House pages is at the crux of a still-evolving investigation and political storm engulfing Republican leaders.
While new details and disclosures are likely, below is a timeline of what's come out about the matter so far.
Foley e-mail exchange
Transcript of forwarded e-mail messages between Mark Foley and a former congressional page. These messages were made public on the Web site of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
Foley instant messages
READER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED: The folowing excerpted exchange between Mark Foley and an underage page contains sexually explicit language and content. The former page says the exchange occured via instant messages in 2003.
FBI launches preliminary Foley investigation
BY AMIE PARNES
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON - The FBI has launched a preliminary investigation into the online exchanges between former Rep. Mark Foley and teenage congressional pages, a spokesman confirmed late Sunday.
Foley scandal items already for sale
By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER
Scripps Howard News Service
WASHINGTON - Some Internet-savvy entrepreneurs have wasted no time trying to cash in on the scandal surrounding disgraced former congressman Mark Foley.
Less than 48 hours after Foley resigned amid questions about his sexually-explicit online messages to teenage boys who once worked as congressional pages, dozens of scandal-related items were up for sale on the web site www.cafepress.com.
A closer look at Mark Foley's demons and desires
By AMIE PARNES
Mark Foley was about to go on stage to accept the love and applause of some of the biggest names in the Recording Academy.
Above the dais, a large screen pictured his smiling face and bore his name.
"Wow, look at that," Foley marveled at the September event in Washington.
Foley sent more messages according to former page
By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER AND AMIE PARNES
WASHINGTON -- Sexually-explicit messages from former Rep. Mark Foley to one former congressional page might be just the tip of the iceberg, the leader of an alumni association for former congressional pages told Scripps Howard News Service on Saturday.
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