CREW urges DOJ I.G. to Probe why the FBI failed to investigate

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CREW URGES DOJ I.G. TO PROBE WHY FBI FAILED TO INVESTIGATE FOLEY EMAILS SENT BY CREW THIS SUMMER
Administration Officials Must Explain Lack of Action

Washington, DC – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) wrote to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office today to ask for an investigation into why the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to begin investigating Rep. Mark Foley’s emails to a former House page as soon as the Bureau learned about the emails in July 2006.

On July 21, 2006 CREW received a set of emails, allegedly from Rep. Foley to a former House page, which it sent to the FBI later that day. The emails, posted at www.citizensforethics.org, asked the page, who had recently left the Hill, his age, how school was going and what he wanted for his birthday. Rep. Foley also requested the boy’s photograph.

“As a former prosecutor who handled sex crimes in the District of Columbia, the emails set off alarm bells. Grown men simply do not send emails requesting photographs to teenagers over whom they have had some degree of authority,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW wrote today.

It appears only now, at the instigation of the House of Representatives leadership’s request, that the FBI has begun a preliminary investigation into former Rep. Foley’s conduct. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting an investigation into Rep. Foley’s actions as well as who knew about Rep. Foley’s conduct, when they knew it and why they did not forward that information to law enforcement authorities.

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http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=163

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1. It cracks me up Rethug operatives trying to spin this as Democrats

possibly sitting on this and waiting till now to release it (thus being guilty of letting it go on for political purposes, what THEY'VE probably done). It seems Democrats and ethical people WERE going pursuing this and going through the proper channels.

When I heard her say this on Al Franken's show today it became clear that it's very possible, "someone" put the skids on an FBI investigation, probably to be done after November. It very well could be the page(s) and their families and whoever was advising them could see what was happening and decided to go straight to the media.

If this is the case Sloan and others need to get out there tell it over and over cause the RW thugs are branching out like weeds defining their version of reality.