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Corrupt Government Title: ABC.COM PULLS FULL STORY - The Mark Foley saga may have just taken a huge turn thanks to a very detailed report from Passionate America. He discovered that ABC had left up some instant messages with the screen name clearly visible Mark Foley page identified: 18 at time, left page program in 2002 The Mark Foley saga may have just taken a huge turn thanks to a very detailed report from Passionate America. He discovered that ABC had left up some instant messages with the screen name clearly visible. Besides all of the evidence he provides, I was able to find another webpage linking the screen name Lolakana223 to Jordan Edmund. This is from a General Discussion board from the House Page Alumni Association. You’ll have to use Google cache as the page is now unavailable: jordanedmund Jul 1 2003, 08:33 PM No it wouldnt Shrineguard. Everyone in the city was encouraged to go back to their homes after the attacks took place. So the Pages went back to their home which is the dorm, we remained there for the rest of the day and then went back to our normal activities the next day. If you would like to know more specific details, feel free to Instant Message me with AOL instant messanger, at Lolakana223, and I’ll answer any question you have. Jordan’s MySpace page is also available in the Google cache. It confirms that he is now 21 and that he left the page program in June 2002. Other things from his MySpace indicate that his sexual orientation is “Straight”, he is a student at University of California, Berkeley, and strangely enough he is currently working on the campaign of a Republican for governor. This will surely be a blow to future media attempts to conceal “victim” identities. It will only be a matter of time now before all of the rest of the information comes out and the facts are known. As of now the questions are: Was the page even under 18 at the time? Was he even a page at the time? Who knew what and when? Drudge has this flash up saying that some messages were from prior to Jordan’s 18th birthday: A network source explains exchanges with the young man and disgraced former Congressman Foley took place before and after the 18th birthday. When were they planning on telling us this? —- Update: (8:51pmCST) I just wanted to add that this new information doesn’t clear former Rep. Foley of anything. He obviously did something wrong as he went right into Patrick Kennedy blame-and-run defense mode. What it does is question if the media is protecting the identity of an 18 year old, apparently the victim of no crime or sexual assault, one month before an election. Sure, some of the IM’s may be to boys under 18 and some may be to at-the-time employed pages. The problem is that some may NOT be. The ABC source implies that there was a mixture and when the information is bottled up there is no way to tell the difference… Update #2: (10:03pmCST) ABC News “The Blotter” has just added this to their story: This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., according to the message time stamp at a time when the teen had been 18 for just six weeks. (Some sharp online readers spotted that the boy was technically legal when the exchange took place). NewsBusters has more information on other changes they are making to their story. The description now reads: ABC News now has obtained 52 separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys who began their exchanges with Foley at the age of 16 and 17, and continued through the age of 18. Update #3: (10:39pmCST) Another http://ABCNews.com piece pulled yesterday? Here is something from FishBowlNY (h/t StopTheACLU): “I filed an original piece of content that I believe adds to ABC’s coverage of the Foley story,” Moss told FishbowlNY. “It is rare for a site like http://ABCNews.com to remove a story completely — it’s as if it never existed. More here at Queerty: ABC.COM PULLS FULL STORY
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