Who originally revealed the Foley info to ABC?

[Kablooie]

Has anyone heard?

[havocmom]

1. I wanna know too. I have a theory

about the timing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2275146&mesg_id=2275146

[greenbriar]

2. I think Allen did it to take the heat off of his macaca troubles

course thats just my opinion

[greenbriar]

3. they eat

their own

[peacebird]

6. sounds like something Allen would do

So - who wants to bet that Foley is "suicided" soon?

[cannonfire]

4. And who revealed the IM log?

I may be wrong, but I have been given to understand that the pageboy who first offered up the emails was not the pageboy who participated in the X-rated IM chat.

So who gave ABC the log of that chat? ABC implied, but did not explicitly state, that the object of Foley's attention made the log available. (Don't make any crude puns. I'm trying to be serious.)

The chat transcript reminded me of the "Squidgey" and "Camillagate" phone recordings which caused such a scandal in Britain in the 1990s. Illegally taped recordings of private phone conversations involving the Prince and his wife somehow made thier way to the public, and few asked where the recordings came from. I've heard that it was MI5 or 6, but there is no proof.

All of which makes me wonder whether the person logging that conversation was someone other than the participants. AOL and Yahoo will make logs available to law enforcement under certain circumstances.

[Mist]

5. I think some of the emails and/or IMs were posted at Daily Kos, but

don't know when. I believe I saw that link here at DU today, but after doing a search, can't pull it up.

[Monkeyman]

7. You did DU someone posted here the IM's from the Page

A day before the story broke on ABC only two hits on that. But someone here sent it to Washington at the contact they had in the leadership office.Then it broke on ABC so its you who broke the story

http//DemocraticLeader.house.gov
@mail.house.gov

hmmmmmmmmm

[keopeli]

8. Hard to tell right now because the field is wide open.

So many possibilities exist right now. The Republicans are literally fighting for their lives. Maybe they've even lost hope. If this is true, they might be very, very scared.

This could have been a sacrificial lamb. Knowing that the Democrats will soon have access too ALL the records they have been hiding for years, it might be time to sweep some skeletons out of the closet.

What's better for the GOP: leaking that a Repub is gay and coming on to teenagers, which they can deny they knew, or having a new Democratic Congress announce that they have discovered evidence that a newly re-elected Congressman has been engaging teenage staffers in sexual dialogue...at least?

And, if you had to leak the scandal out, how would you do it?

Maybe pass it off to your "bestest" network buddy - ABC.

The fact that this scenario is so plausible is what makes it unlikely we'll ever know who really leaked this story.

My guess is Rove. It's a safe guess.

Peace.

[phiddle]

9. My theory---disaffected spooks (CIA, etc.)

First, the CIA rank and file are ANGRY. They took the fall for the Iraq WMD failure, and some of the 9/11 "failure to predict". Reportedly, CIA case officers are refusing to utilize some of the more extreme interrogation techniques desired by the administration.

Secondly, I don't think that ABC/Disney gives a rat's ass about atonement for "Pathway to 9/11". (They didn't offer Clinton or his team a chance to rebut.) Furthermore, even being in posession of the material I don't think that they'd publish it without a major shove---think the NY Times holding the NSA spy story until after the 2004 election. But a few spooks having the goods on a few execs could induce them to publish it.

Third, the timing seems deliberate. It occurred on the last day of the congressional session, when everyone is around to comment, and it was too late for the Republican leadership to do anything cosmetic; they now just have to live with it through the election.

Fourth, it seems too strategic to be random. Joe six-pack may not trust the Repugs on social security or economic policy, but he sees them as the party of national security and personal morality. The leaked NIE on terrorism (also a spook action, I believe) and the Foley affair hit the Republicans precisely where they live and undercut the core of their message.

(Is this crazy?)

So, rhetorically, who could intercept e-mails and IMs, shine a light in dark places, motivate a right wing corporation to publish dirt on Repugs, and both aim and time the actions so deliberately? I rest my case.