This is sad. Every American must put aside political affiliation and examine the seriousness of this event and carefully examine your vote come November. If our elected leaders don't have our interest, they should not betray our children in this manner. Foley and all those who knew about this event must resign or be removed in November.

What a sick piece of trash this guy is. I sincerely hope he is locked up for his actions. Guys that try to have sex with young boys don't usually fare too well in prison.

Also, he thinks he may be an alcoholic? One, if you're an alcoholic, you know. There's no thinking about it. Two, way to try to blame your behavior on the booze. Be a man and take responsibility for your actions, you sick pervert.

dont u mean instant messages show foley sought to rendezvous with page rather than emails?

WHY aren't they saying Foley's been online with OTHER THAN PAGES? If he's THAT bold .. to do this to kids who know who is he, then ... MySpace and others HAD to have had this going on, too. My ONLY REGRET is that DATELINE didn't trap him .. gosh, whatta show that would have been! Hastert and all the others should be charged with contributing to the deliquency of minors .. knowing all of this. AND may I ask why Hastert would "forget" that he was told one of his buddies was a pediphile. I would tend to REMEMBER THAT.

Why is not already in custody...Rehab for alcohol won't stop you from being a Pedofile. Arrest him!

The republicans who covered this sick crap up should resign. If they don't,then they are no better than Foley.

And now the GOP house leadership is claiming they knew nothing.

Right.

Where is all the integrity and "moral values" republicans love to claim? Oh,wait.....must have been another lie on top of all the other lies.

There is more that will come out in the next few days, By the end of the week Hasert will step down as Speaker, BANK on it. Watch the new tomorrow.. Peace.

It would be helpful if ABC, in posting these instant messages, clarified if these messages were all to the same boy or if they are different boys. I think it would help to alleviate some of the confusion about this. The e-mails were sent to Boy 1, the previously revealed IMs to Boy 2, these to Boy 3 or Boy 2, for example.

The way it's stated, it all sounds like it's to the same person, but clarity, either way, is needed on the part of ABC.

Nice work, Brian. Foley is a degenerate, shielded by his own political party. Hastert knew, lied, and is now covering his tracks (too late?). Everyone involved in this scandal within the Republican Party will be running for the exits, just like Abrahamoff scandal...

RE: Foley
Yes, if it's proven he was harrassing young interns, whatever criminal charges should be pursued. However, I find it interesting that the democrats are acting like they wouldn't be doing exactly the same as the republicans, which is cover their behinds and saving a seat!!! I'm a registered voter who is never polled so the polls done for any subject mean nothing to me. My voice isn't heard in them. All politicians will do whatever necessary to cover their behinds--democrat or republican!

This shows how vulnerable are the childrens now a days. People those supposed to protect the society and people, are the sex offender. My question is how many of this kind of incident get reported! In this modern society, in the name of freedom we are making available all our vulnerable population to the disgraceful immoral people. This is becoming a berberic society of power.

So who had the IM's? The GOP didn't - ABC News got hold of them.

Who gave them to ABC? Is this an "October surprise?" Did any of the Democrats thumping their chests here see the altered emails ABC is using to base the story on? Who altered them? Who sat on the IM's until now?

Why don't journalists ask these questions repeatedly?

The people have a right to know, after all. Question the timing.

Lauren: I'm not sure the difference between e-mails and IM's is enough to warrant a screaming post about inaccuracy. To most of the public, the two are virtually the same. Also, the above story identifies the transcript as "messages" and refers to "internet messages" as well as e-mails. Since the story does involve both e-mails and IM's, it seems that the terms might be interchanged without losing the basic accuracy of the story. With everything there is to be upset about in this developing story, and given the content of the messages, the difference between e-mails and IM's just doesn't seem that important.

Oh yeah, it's ABC and the democrats fault that Foley has a thing for children. These aren't young interns, they're children.

Are you serious? Did someone just compare this to Monica Lewinsky?

Monica was *22* years old. In other words, old enough to buy a gun, get drunk, gamble... and have an affair with a married man.

In contrast, the teenage boy in question here wasn't even old enough to get a credit card.

Republican or Democrat- it does not matter. This is not a partisan issue- the guy has a problem and needs serious help, and has broken the law. Rather than trying to start a battle here, why can't we find a better way to identify and arrest criminals- regardless of party affiliation?

Its not like the Democrats Haven't had similar scandals.

Shame on Foley for tarnishing his party his lack of discretion.

Shame on the Democrats for making this a political issue.

It's so strange that Brian Ross admitted that the pages, involved with the sexual Instant Messages, told him that they never told anyone about it, therefore the GOP couldn't possibly have known about the IMs. Since then, Ross has stooped to calling everything "e-mails" or "internet messages" so he can insinuate that the GOP might have known about it. These are INSTANT MESSAGES!! These are what no one knew about! Stop pretending otherwise! Brian Ross is intentionally confusing and misleading the public!