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A Foley Witness: "Who was that? Did you recognize her?"
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ABC's Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Reporters camped outside the basement office of the House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (The Ethics Committee) are clueless as to what is going on inside. Staffers and deliverymen come and go, but nobody is entirely sure who is a witness, much less what they are telling the special investigative subcommittee as it puts together the facts of the former Rep. Mark Foley illicit e-communication page scandal inside.
When Danielle Savoy, the former scheduler to Rep. Rodney Alexander, went inside the room this morning, none of the reporters realized she might be a witness. It was not until later, when Savoy's former boss, Representative Alexander's chief of staff Royal Alexander (no relation) was turned away from testifying because, as he told reporters, the committee was "running over" with their first witness that the people staking the committee out even knew there was a first witness in the room. Royal Alexander said he knew it was Savoy testifying when he returned for his turn after lunch.
Savoy is the Alexander staffer first alerted to the overly friendly emails by a former page last a year ago.
Link:
http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/foley_emails_red_group1.pdf
These are not to be confused with the inappropriate and sexual instant messages that caused Foley to resign back in late September.
Link:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=1
It was easier to identify Royal Alexander because he stopped in front of the office and chatted with journalists for a moment before going in. But there was similar confusion late last week when the Page Dorm Supervisor, John Leekley, was informally interviewed by staff members on the committee; the congressmen who sit on the committee had already left for the day and so testimony could not be taken. Leekley is a young looking man and in his dark suit, he appeared nervous entering and leaving the office and would not say anything to reporters as he hurried down the hall after his interview, even at one point trying to enlist the help of a Capitol Hill Police officer to put some distance between himself and the journalists pursuing him. It took some asking around for the assembled reporters to figure out that Leekley helps supervise the pages and is not himself a former page.
This confusion and guessing is likely to continue in the coming weeks as the committee works its way through the four dozen subpoenas it has already authorized as part of its investigation.
October 16, 2006 | Permalink | User Comments (6)
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More than tired of hearing about "the Foley" case. Tempest in a teapot. 16 year olds talk dirty. Some adults do to. So what? If Foley was to run today, I'd vote for him just because of the media has run this case into the ground! Get over it!
Posted by: JS | Oct 16, 2006 4:37:31 PM
repubs would love this to go away and back to the message of scare america, however, just heard on cnn that the ethics committee is going to expand the investigation. lol, cant wait till the election, the dems could begin to spend the election equity, is that what bush said, lol.
Posted by: mike | Oct 16, 2006 7:23:13 PM
I think the Ethics Committee is going to burn out after going through the "William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana $90 large in the freezer" scandal.
The press has absolutely "no clue" what is being said to the Committee, as stated in this article. Yet they make stuff up every day and supposedly quote verbatim people they aren't even sure are witnesses. Talk about making up the news!!
There's no story here. Quit boring us. The Harry Reid land deals are certainly more interesting and he's the TOP Democrat, not some low-life rep. Come on, ABC! Get with the program!
Posted by: Valisa Wheeler | Oct 17, 2006 1:44:00 AM
We are doing a oral presentation in school and one of the main points on news articles is the reliability of the source and how credible is it. Any comments from you are greatly appreciated it.
Thank you.
Jackie Espinoza
Posted by: Jackie Espinoza | Oct 17, 2006 9:03:19 AM
sorry Valisa, the republicans are way worse off in the scandal area.
right. Reid's one land deal should be the focus, not the 5 - 10 repulicans involved in scandal now.
Posted by: hostiledm | Oct 17, 2006 11:12:09 AM
I say that the scandal is a scandal because one party claims to have the authority and morality to say they are behind family values. Well this scandal proves that they allowed a man who has an interest in teens to remain in Congress, even though his behavior was approaching predatory. And if you say that you would vote for Foley, I hope that you are joking.
Posted by: robert in chicago | Oct 19, 2006 9:50:28 PM
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