Reply #21: This Could Be The REAL Cover-Up

[KharmaTrain]

Foley must have gotten a head's up by ABC they were going to do a story. My bets place that sometime on Thursday night...when the story first ran over the wires and the first postings I saw about it here. According to the "timeline", Foley's resignation wasn't announced until sometime on Friday evening...almost 24 hours after the story broke...and 12 hours or so after the explicit IMs were released. That's an eternity in wiping a computer clean.

A couple point here. First...we're not sure he was IM'ing on a Capitol Hill puter...we could have had his own laptop...or, someone suggested to me...that he has a PDA or Blackberry and was using that. While they could lock down his office machines...if this stuff was being done on a personal machine, it's gonna take some digging to first find out about such machines and then to see if they still exist.

IRC, the first warrants in this case didn't come out until the middle of last week...so that adds even more time for all the stuff being dumped. Several years ago, an acquaintance was nailed on sex with a minor...what nailed him were the pictures in his machine which enabled the prosecutor to match up his involvement with this young girl (when they found her picture on his machine)...and he later bitched that he should have kept the pics on his Palm Pilot and he would have never been convicted.

Now Foley was asking for pictures...some machine has to have them. I only hope the Hastert gang tried to wipe the main Capitol Hill puters clean, cause that WILL show up in an audit...and we could really have some fun.

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