Mark Foley and Charlie Crist: Florida's GOP duo's "secrets" known to Jeb and Dubya.
October 13/14/15, 2006 -- Pagegate. The sex scandal involving underage male congressional pages and ex-Rep. Mark Foley is reverberating in Florida's hotly-contested gubernatorial election between GOP Attorney General Charlie Crist and Democratic Rep. Jim Davis. WMR has received information from our Florida sources that Crist and Florida Governor Jeb Bush were well aware of Foley's "problems" in 2001 and possibly much earlier. In another sign that these concerns were passed by Tallahassee to the White House, the Orlando Sentinel reported yesterday that Foley complained in a Sept. 19, 2004 e-mail to Jeb Bush that the president was ignoring Foley during presidential post-hurricane visits to Florida.
Mark Foley and Charlie Crist: Florida's GOP duo's "secrets" known to Jeb and Dubya.
Foley wrote to Jeb Bush, ""I can't quite figure what I have done, but this is a continuing pattern of slights . . . Sorry to trouble you ... and I wouldn't if this wasn't so frequent . . . Have I done something to offend the White House? I am always getting the shaft." It was also revealed yesterday by The New Republic that Foley got the "shaft" more than once from the White House. After expressing a desire to retire from Congress and set up a lobbying firm on K Street, George W. Bush's chief adviser Karl Rove told Foley that if he did not run again for Congress, Rove would ensure that Foley's lobbying business failed.
Rove's pressure on Foley occurred after the White House was aware of Foley's "problems." The revelation about Rove and Foley means that the Bush White House was part of the cover-up of Foley's possibly illegal conduct with the House pages -- and that is beyond the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee. Pagegate, like CIA Leakgate, points to the need for the restoration of the Independent Special Counsel statute. That should be a priority for the Democratic Congress.
Wayne Madsen Report
The Florida GOP cover-up arising from "Pagegate" continues.
Mark Foley and Charlie Crist: Florida's GOP duo's "secrets" known to Jeb and Dubya.
Foley wrote to Jeb Bush, ""I can't quite figure what I have done, but this is a continuing pattern of slights . . . Sorry to trouble you ... and I wouldn't if this wasn't so frequent . . . Have I done something to offend the White House? I am always getting the shaft." It was also revealed yesterday by The New Republic that Foley got the "shaft" more than once from the White House. After expressing a desire to retire from Congress and set up a lobbying firm on K Street, George W. Bush's chief adviser Karl Rove told Foley that if he did not run again for Congress, Rove would ensure that Foley's lobbying business failed.
Rove's pressure on Foley occurred after the White House was aware of Foley's "problems." The revelation about Rove and Foley means that the Bush White House was part of the cover-up of Foley's possibly illegal conduct with the House pages -- and that is beyond the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee. Pagegate, like CIA Leakgate, points to the need for the restoration of the Independent Special Counsel statute. That should be a priority for the Democratic Congress.
Wayne Madsen Report
The Florida GOP cover-up arising from "Pagegate" continues.
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