Major Republican sex scandal rocks Republican Party just before major mid-term elections that will determine which party controls Congress, and whether investigations will finally begin into the Bush administration.

Mark Foley resigns. House Republican leadership accused of hiding Mark Foley’s sexual stalking of young, male House pages for months, if not years. Pre-election NEWS coverage of Republican sex scandal is extensive, dominating local, state and national NEWS. Karl Rove reportedly talked Mark Foley into running for re-election in early 2006. Major damage done to Republican credibility concerning moral issues.

Dateline: New Mexico, October, 2006.

A U.S. Attorney, David Iglesias, is pressured by Republican politicians to release to the NEWS MEDIA grand jury information concerning in-the-works indictments against Democrats in New Mexico. Iglesias refuses. Iglesias is threatened. Iglesias sticks to original time-line involving release of indictment information to NEWS MEDIA after mid-term elections. Iglesias is fired Dec. 7th, 2006.

Also in October, other U.S. Attorney are being strongly urged by the White House to raise allegations of Democratic voter fraud with the NEWS MEDIA.

This is the smoking gun.

Apparently 85 U.S. Attorney followed White House orders and used their office in partisan attacks against Democrats, whether in response to the Mark Foley sex scandal or not, while eight U.S. Attorneys refused to comply, thus leading to their firing in early December.

And I have yet to see any mention of Mark Foley in any of the documents being dumped, which either means there is no connection between the eight U.S. Attorneys being fired in December and the Foley sex scandal that peaked in October, or there is a connection and all references to Mark Foley are being censored prior to the documents being dumped.

I believe it is the latter. Too much was at stake in October for the Republicans, and Karl Rove, and Alberto Gonzales, not to use every resource available to “pushback” against NEWS coverage of the Mark Foley sex scandal. And one of these resources was the Republican-appointed U.S. Attorneys using the power of their office to “swift boat” Democrats.

EPU’ed, but OMG, IIRC, WRT these MSM WATBs at the WaPo and the NYT, they should just STFU IMHO.

TYVM, Hugh

RealWorld (10) — here are the most frequently used Acronyms and their Definitions:

BTW — By the way

EPU, EPU’d — Acronym for “Evil Parallel Universe”, name of a long-time, popular commenter at FireDogLake; acronym “EPU’d” used to describe condition in which a commenter posts at the end of a comment thread as a new thread begins, often without realizing the new thread has started. Evil Parallel Universe often EPU’d himself because his comments were thoughtful and dense in content; by the time he’d completed and submitted his comment in response to a comment mid-thread, he would wind up at the end of a thread with many users having moved on to the new thread.

IANAL — I am not a lawyer – frequently used caveat qualifying a comment as an opinion from someone without a Juris Doctor.

IIRC — If I recall correctly

MSM — Mainstream Media, referring to traditional, corporate-owned media outlets in both print and broadcast.

OMG — Oh my God. Variant OMFG also frequently used.

WRT — With regard to

I have a table of these on my blog included with other Libby trial resources, but I guess I should make a new post for these only.

Anybody else want to handle the How-To’s on linking, quoting, etc.?

LOL = laugh out loud
INAP, but = (new) I’m not a Plameologist, but

I love this because it reminds me of this overheard conversation by a very big guy, “I’m not macho or anything. I mean, I don’t wear an earring.”

Thanks

The agreement does not require Griles to help investigators with their grand jury probe.

Did I get that right? So who is the fed. prosecutor on this nugget?

sparkles i think posted this earlier:
johnnywheaker @ 202

thanks, i hadn’t heard that!