Mark Foley still hasn’t been properly investigated for his salacious exchanges with underage Congressional pages.
The case hit a roadblock last summer when House lawyers refused to turn over Foley computers. Hoping to cut through the red tape, Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to grant them access. She refused. Instead, Pelosi passed the matter on to the House Office of General Counsel. Said a spokesman: “The speaker referred the commissioner’s request to the House Office of General Counsel, and that response is the response of the House.”
The Palm Beach Post ain’t happy with Pelosi’s shenanigans – the editors published a scathing letter this morning, which reads:
Rep. Pelosi should allow the FDLE access. Foley should be allowed to declare which files he thinks are protected. If a judge agrees, those files would be withheld.
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A lawmaker’s legislative materials should be off-limits. But we already know that Foley sent all those lewd messages to former pages. In a milder exchange, he said of a teenager’s shorts, “Love to slip them off of you.” That remark has nothing to do with lawmaking. The public deserves to know whether it had to do with law-breaking.
And, if nothing else, Foley’s guilty of supremely tacky lameness: “Love to slip them off of you”? Who says that?!
How about we take this to the next level?
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leomoore
It is not only lame, it is grammatically incorrect. Double prepositions are a faux pas.
ernesto
I lost all respect for Pelosi long time ago. Apparently she decided to be part of the Republican Administration instead of going against it like she promised before the elections. Who, how and when got to her? I guess we will never know, but someone did and she proved to be all puff and no punch. Shame on you.
abelincoln
Pelosi just wants to stick with the important business that needs to be done. Hopefully she’ll let us know what that is when she figures it out. She has become a great disappointment as a leader.
ProfessorVP
Amnesia victim Nancy forgot why the Dems won in 2006. A little thing called Iraq.
hisurfer
“Pelosi passed the matter on to the House Office of General Counsel. ” What’s wrong with this – it seems like a neutral course of action. You know, follow the law, don’t engage in witch hunts, seek the advice of counsel before taking action …
ee.em.bee
I dunno, hisurfer…that whole following-the-law, due-process thing seems pretty suspicious: disturbingly pre-Bush.