CREW: Dennis Hastert failed to disclose legal payments from Foley scandal

[bobthedrummer]

I'll bet there was a lot more money paid out than just legal fees by those "defending" the long time child predator Mark Foley and his network.

Here is the CREW article about Hastert, the former wrestling coach...

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/30676

What is truly profoundly disturbing to most parents are the associations and causes that child predators hide behind-for instance Mark Foley was the Chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children and sponsor of a bill outlawing electronic sexual predation of children--precisely one of the crimes Foley committed.

Fwiw, when the Mark Foley "scandal" broke just before the 2006 elections some of us here discussed the aspect of who were associated with The Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Board of Directors-and we were shocked by the results.

"The Center for Missing and Exploited Children Board of Directors" (archived thread started 10-1-2006)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2280827

Mark Foley paid off some of his "debts" with leftover campaign $ too-isn't that another crime?

Mark Foley should have been put behind bars long ago, not in them looking for a hookup to someones child.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Foley needs to be behind bars. nt

[bobthedrummer]

3. Absolutely. No one is above the law.

[annabanana]

2. Hastert should be in a turkish prison. . . . . n/t

[bobthedrummer]

8. Or on a ship on the open seas...

[Blarch]

4. man..

if there was an opposition party, those guys would be in trouble.

[bobthedrummer]

6. Welcome to DU, Blarch.

[Blarch]

7. hi.

:hi:

Did I join the board at a bad time ? :nuke:

[rosesaylavee]

10. Excellent time to join!

Welcome to DU from another in Hastert country! Have you been to the Illinois forum yet?

:hi:

[bridgit]

5. Fucking Denny, what a hack!

:nopity:

[bobthedrummer]

9. There does seem to be validity to the claim that Republican values

create child molesters, like Mark Foley and his network.

Armchair subversive.org has tracked this for years

"Republican Hypocrisy Revealed"
http://www.armchairsubversive.org/

And they aren't held accountable for their crimes.

[bobthedrummer]

11. Mark Foley profile from Source Watch's Congresspedia

Mark Foley
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Foley

Dennis Hastert Congresspedia profile
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=J._Dennis_Hastert

[knowledgeispwr]

12. Surprise! Surprise!

I bet there is a lot of muck behind Mr. Hastert if someone decided to really investigate. One can dream, though.

[dysfunctional press]

13. when you leave office, any leftover campaign money becomes yours-

free to do with as you please.

[bobthedrummer]

15. caveat- when legitimate campaign money and for legitimate purposes

[Octafish]

14. Hastert & Foley instrumental in giving Bushler authority to war. Kids are the chief victims of war.

From a news source Bush wanted to bomb:

Iraqis resort to selling children

By Afif Sarhan in Baghdad

EXCERPT...

Desperation

By mid-2007, conditions for his family had become desperate and his children, once healthy and bubbling with life, had become gaunt and lethargic.

It was then that a translator and a Swedish couple claiming to be part of an international NGO arrived in the makeshift refugee camp.

"They heard about my situation and the woman, who said she could not have babies, offered some money to give her my youngest daughter of two years old," he said.

"I refused in the beginning but the Iraqi translator was constantly coming at the camp and insisting with the same question. One day I found that my children would die without food and a clean environment and the next time he came to my tent, I told him that I agreed."

He gave the translator all personal documents and after a week the couple came with new documents for Abu Muhammad to sign, authorising the adoption and to pick up his daughter.

Abu Muhammad, who received $10,000, believes he is now damned by God, but he says his inner turmoil is allayed somewhat by his belief that Fatima will have a better life than many in Iraq.

"I could see her love in the first time she looked at her," he said of the adoptive mother.

Alarming disappearances

Local officials and aid workers have expressed concern over the alarming rate at which children are disappearing countrywide in Iraq's current unstable environment.

SNIP...

Another four are reported missing every week.

CONTINUED...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F22B4D85-59F6-4778-8E9F-C15E7F1CDB40.htm

That's called truth. It is alien to much of Corporate McPravda.

[bobthedrummer]

16. Denny is featured in one of the pictures sent by Sibel Edmonds too...