FBI Opens "Preliminary Investigation" of Foley

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/


The FBI has opened a "preliminary investigation" of disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley over the sexually explicit Internet messages he sent to congressional pages, all male high school students under the age of 18.

Agents in the FBI's Cyber Division have already begun to examine the texts of some of the messages, according to a FBI spokesperson.

Officials say the FBI and Department of Justice lawyers are trying to determine how many such e-mails were sent, how many different computers were used and whether any of the teenage victims will cooperate in the investigation.


It's possible Foley could be prosecuted under laws he helped to enact, as the co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.

[ngant17]

1. What would Ms. Jane Edgar Hoover have done?

I suspect there would be a lot of deleted/trashed notes from his personal file cabinet to protect any other Republicans who might have been remotely connected with this scandal.