BREAKING: Reynolds staff tried to cover-up Foley scandal

[cynatnite]

It's confirmed. Congressman Tom Reynolds' (R-NY) chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, tried to broker a secret deal last Friday to get ABC News to cover up the worst part of the Foley child predator scandal, the lurid five-plus-page instant message chat in which Foley asked a child to measure his penis and then led the child into a detailed discussion of masturbatory techniques.

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Congressman Reynolds let his own chief of staff secretly work for a child predator in an effort to cover-up the worst evidence of the predator's sexual wrongdoing. Without that evidence, this case might not have broken wide open. Add Reynolds to the list, alongside Hastert and Shimkus, of members of Congress who need to resign now.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/

[Old and In the Way]

1. You just gotta love it.

The petards are getting hoisted with regularity....

[Bluebear]

2. And the hits just keep on comin'. nt

[Richard D]

3. This is getting so good!

[sweetheart]

4. The terrorist is behind you,

he's republican,
and his fly is unzipped,
he used to be your boss,
you owe your employer for a good reference,
It's ok because of who he is,
and his hardness bulges against you from behind,
closing in on all your space,
who's your bush daddy today.

[Union Thug]

5. At what point does the GOP finally just collapse? n/t

[liberalmuse]

6. Scratch a Republican and find a Pedophile...

I know my posts sound crass tonight, but I'm so disgusted with the Repedophiles that I could puke. What a bunch of sick, SICK, hypocrictical, perverted predators. Come to Utah, the land of Republicans, and you will see some of the highest rape, incest and child molestation figures in the country. I won't go into how many of my friends were molested in childhood by these "fine, upstanding" men.

[RandiFan1290]

7. Is this the same guy that received $100k

from Foley?

[cynatnite]

8. Craig Crawford on KO said something about that...

it was to buy silence.

Good observation!

[RandiFan1290]

9. Here it is

http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2006/09/reynolds_knew_b.php

...In that context, a reader emails a piece of information that strikes me as very bad news for Reynolds: He may have given Foley money after he was told of the allegations.

Reynolds's personal PAC, TOMPAC, wrote Foley a check for $5,000 on May 10, 2006. (You can see the filing here.)

According to the AP, Reynolds was told of the allegations against Foley "sometime this spring."

I put in a request to NRCC spokesman Carl Forti for a more precise date.

UPDATE: Also: On July 27, 2006, the NRCC, which Reynolds chairs, accepted an unusually large contribution of $100,000 from Foley. Hard to imagine something of that size just slipping past the chairman.

UPDATE UPDATE: It sure looks like Reynolds was aware of the issue by May.

[formercia]

11. to shut him up

two way quid pro quo.

[rocktivity]

10. Way to make amends for Path to 9/11, ABC!

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[formercia]

12. It's so ironic that ABC turned witness

I'm sure there were good people over there that were outraged.

[maine_raptor]

13. Pinch me, I gotta be dreaming

The GOP is imploding right before my eye and I'm loving every minute of this!!!!!


Someone HAS GOT to find some statements from Reynolds about Clinton.

Let the euphoria begin!!!!!!!!!!!

[malaise]

14. Watch the Reynolds Press Conference

http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100