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FBI's Six-Page Questionnaire for Congressional Pages
October 25, 2006 2:22 PM
FBI agents are using a detailed, six-page questionnaire sent from headquarters to interrogate former congressional male pages about everything from Mark Foley's e-mails to his visits to the page dorm, according to a former page who was questioned by the FBI for nearly three hours last week.
"Where and when did I first meet him? Did he visit the page dorm? Did he ask about my birthday? Did he offer to help me with recommendations?" the former page, who asked not to be identified, told ABC News.
"The agents were most focused on what happened while I was in the page program and any contact with Foley before I turned 18," said the former page from the class of 2000 who had received sexually explicit e-mails from Foley.
"They asked for a list of all of my past screen names and e-mail accounts" to help them search Foley's computer, which they said would happen very quickly. The agents also asked if any other members of Congress had made similar overtures, the former page said.
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When the former page revealed he had a sexual encounter with Foley, after he turned eighteen, the agents were "polite and professional but requested specific details of everything that happened."
"It was intimidating. The agents interviewed me in their office sitting at a long conference table surrounded by the American flag, a photo of President Bush and Attorney General Gonzales. They told me that while this was still a preliminary inquiry, I might be subpoenaed to testify in the future," he said.
"Before I left, they cautioned me about talking to reporters and, in particular, to watch out for phone calls from a female reporter from ABC News," the former page said.
Read the Blotter's Full Coverage on the Foley Internet Scandal.
October 25, 2006 in Mark Foley Internet Scandal | Permalink | User Comments (17)
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This is becoming like a witch hunt. Creepy. I think it's important for all to calm down and be logical and reasonable.
If most Republicans are lying about what they knew when, what's the point of an investigation? The answers on the interrogatories will be lies.
I say all in Washington, which includes Senate, Congress and House must be sedated with Sodium Pentathol and hooked up to a polygraph machine...they leave us no choice. Sedate them sweetly without them knowing and hook them up!
Posted by: blondmadison | Oct 25, 2006 3:24:30 PM
If I were the paranoid type, I would suspect that part of the purpose of these interviews was to delay the release of information to the media. All former pages are told not to talk to ABC News or other news outlets about what happend because it is a pending investigation. Convenient for those who want to delay the worst of it until after the election.
Posted by: Ben | Oct 25, 2006 3:31:18 PM
Get over it already.
Posted by: ken | Oct 25, 2006 3:54:32 PM
OK, guys enough with this already. Mark Foley is Gay. He resigned over a month ago. Let's talk about Social Security, Immigration, War on Terror, and how this country is turning into a bunch of whiners who want the goverment and employers to take care of them. Oh yeah, let's not forget about how the rich have it all and I want what they have and How about Paris Hilton and Angelia Jolie and Brad Pitt with Jennifer Anniston. etc........
Posted by: mike jones | Oct 25, 2006 4:30:49 PM
The GOP and its defenders just don't get it. The reason this won't go away is not because Foley is gay, or anything Foley did at all. This remains an issue because, instead of taking action against him back when, they chose to use the the information to blackmail Foley. Then, when their blackmail scheme was exposed - they instituted a cover-up, headed by Rep. Hastert (the most powerful man in congress). It won't be time to stop discussing it until the corrupt GOP blackmailers are all brought to justice.
Posted by: Sanders Kaufman | Oct 25, 2006 5:16:03 PM
Can we move on to something else please? Let justice do its job then tell us what happened. We just don't care about the play-by-play approach the media has taken.
Posted by: Debbie | Oct 25, 2006 5:24:20 PM
I totally agree, please don't waste our tax dollars on this witch hunt.
Posted by: Kim Kurtin | Oct 25, 2006 5:31:45 PM
when are they going on record, under oath?
Posted by: Lewis | Oct 25, 2006 5:36:11 PM
Yeah Mike, I wish that I too was brilliant enough to synthesize 250 years of philosophical debate about the proper distribution of wealth in a society down to "a bunch of whiners who want the government and employers to take care of them." Unfortunately, I have to live with the burden of having some experience with the world, and a degree in Political Science. In short, you are just like every other yahoo who's probably never read Marx, or Adam Smith, yet feel you are on expert on economic and political philosophy. Judging by your comment, you are neither. Perhaps tomorrow you will grace us with your vast understanding of medicine and cosmology as well.
Posted by: Heliocracy | Oct 25, 2006 5:38:57 PM
Why are spending money on an investigation that will give us 0$ back? Why not iinvestigate where all the money for the hurricane and the war went? Maybe just maybe we could get some of it back. Perhaps money is being spent to prevent these investigations?
Posted by: Rob Rader | Oct 25, 2006 5:47:58 PM
Like Democrats don't lie, aren't gay and don't do inappropriate things? How about Clinton lying under oath in front of the Grand Jury? Where was your outrage then? It's getting sad that the Media only wants to cover these stupid issues? Also, it's easy for a "un-named page" to make these comments - how about giving him that truth serum? Geezzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: 77american77 | Oct 25, 2006 6:03:35 PM
We want to know who the OTHER members of the House were who spent an excessive amount of time "socializing" with pages, as it's been described. That information is being treated like it's TOP SECRET by Republicans.
Posted by: Chris Baker | Oct 26, 2006 11:06:54 AM
To all those people rushing us to " get over it", where were you when the country spent millions chasing CLinton over a private affair with a adult, college grad. ? Get over it ? Please, we have a couple years to play catch for what you did. Bet on it when I say this is just the beginning. The investigations have yet to start into all the real laws broken by members of the Republican Party that instead of staining a blue, has stain our entire country and cost the lives of over 1/2 a million people. You reap what sewed.
Posted by: Cranky | Oct 26, 2006 11:55:30 AM
To me the solution is very simple; WATERBOARD them.
Posted by: RabidRobert | Oct 26, 2006 3:46:18 PM
It's time out for Hastert! My opinion is that he only have 2 more years in office, he's of age and he's using President Bush as a cover to swindle out of the fact that he's just as guilty as the others that knew of this sexual harrassment that's been going on for too long.
Posted by: ELoisP.Clayton | Oct 28, 2006 9:17:20 AM
This chasing of Foley after he's resigned is a silly waste of time, effort and tax dollars. If Clinton had resigned I would have been for ending that investigation too. By the way, the age of consent in D.C is 16 years.
Posted by: Patrick | Oct 30, 2006 5:08:12 PM
I should like to point out to Mr. Rob Rader that the issue at hand isn't the democrats or Mr. Clintons sex life but the illegal amoral conduct of a member of the party who espouses 'Family Values' and the 'Moral' right.
I have never preferred misdirection to truth. Do not attempt to employ that tactic here. Mr. Foley does, however, have the same legal right of the rest of us to be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law even though the evidence is justly damaging.
Posted by: Kimberly Douglas | Oct 31, 2006 11:58:06 AM
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