Sunday, October 01, 2006

Timing

According to the New York Times , the FBI has begun a preliminary investigation into Mark Foley's communications.

Speaker Dennis Hastert asks a question I essentially posed earlier in the day: 

Since the communications appear to have existed for three years, there should be an investigation into the extent there are persons who knew or had possession of these messages but did not report them to the appropriate authorities,” the letter from Mr. Hastert [to the Justice Department] said. “ It is important to know who may have had the communications and why they were not given to prosecutors before now.

 
I don’t believe in coincidence, and apparently neither does Hastert.  The timing of this revelation has more to do about helping Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats than protecting teenagers with whom Foley was communicating.  What else explains the delay?  I remain extremely curious about who had the instant messages, when they received them, from whom they received them, and how they became public only now.  As in the Valerie Plame matter, where several news outlets helped the likes of Charles Schumer to perpetuate lies about the White House and encouraged his demand for a special counsel, some reporters (probably including Brian Ross of ABC News) know who and what are behind the timing of the Foley revelation and are protecting that aspect of the story to prevent the complete facts from becoming public until after the election – that is, after the political damage has been done. 

10/01 11:22 PM