More on the Foley scandal from Wonkette:

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Illinois) interviewed Foley about his page problem along with the House clerk. Everybody on the Page Board knew about Foley … everyone but the lone Democrat on the board, Michigan Rep. Dale Kildee, who was intentionally kept out of the loop.

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a former House page said that at a 2003 page reunion, he saw sexually suggestive e-mails Foley had sent to another former page. Patrick McDonald, 21, now a senior at Ohio State University, said he eventually learned of “three or four” pages from his 2001-2002 class who were sent such messages.

He said he remembered saying at the reunion, “If this gets out, it will destroy him.”

The FBI will be taking a look into those emails, according to today’s Washington Post:

The [FBI’s] announcement came hours after House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert asked for a Justice Department investigation into not only Foley’s actions but also Congress’s handling of the matter once it learned of the contacts.


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