The Main Event
What Glenn Greenwald calls the Main Event in the Republicans’ coverup of the Foley Scandal may be hitting the wires right now:
Former page alleges sexual encounter with disgraced lawmaker
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A former congressional page said he had sex with disgraced former US lawmaker Mark Foley, according to a newspaper report, as an explosive Washington political scandal continued to unfold.
The unidentified former page told the Los Angeles Times Sunday that he was 21 when he and the Florida Republican congressman had sex, and that Foley’s overtures began shortly after he left the congressional page work-study program for high school students.
He told the daily that the sexual encounter with Foley occured at the congressman’s Washington home in the fall of 2000, while he working as an intern in an unrelated program.
The former page said he began receiving messages from Foley while in college. He told the daily he is uncertain how Foley knew his college instant-message name, but assumed the lawmaker had access to a directory listing former pages’ whereabouts.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip…
