FBI Failed to Take Action to Protect House Pages, Report Says

[orleans]

By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press

"WASHINGTON — The FBI should have acted to protect teenage House pages when it initially learned last July that ex-Rep. Mark Foley had sent disturbing e-mails to a former male page, an internal Justice Department report concluded today.

"The bureau, which at the time declined to investigate, also made inaccurate statements to the news media about its decision, the report said. It said that bureau spokesmen wrongly asserted that the decision was influenced by a congressional watchdog group's failure to provide information missing from the e-mails.

"The report, by Inspector General Glenn Fine, said the group was not asked to provide any additional information from the e-mails — nor did the missing material influence the decision not to investigate.

more...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4488949.html

[Janice325]

1. Aw, shit!

Too bad I'm not surprised.Mofo bastards.
k&r

[sabra]

2. Justice Department report faults FBI for not initially investigating Foley

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5972596

Justice Department report faults FBI for not initially investigating Foley

WASHINGTON An internal Justice Department report has concluded that the F-B-I should have acted to protect teenage House pages after learning about e-mails that were being sent by former Florida Congressman Mark Foley.

The report by Inspector General Glenn Fine says the F-B-I should have "considered taking some steps" to make sure that minors in the Congressional page program were not at risk "of predatory behavior by Foley."

The report also says the bureau also made inaccurate statements to the news media about its decision not to investigate. It says that bureau spokesmen wrongly asserted that the decision was influenced by a congressional watchdog group's failure to provide information missing from the e-mails.

[orleans]

3. and this:

"The group that provided the e-mails, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said it had been vindicated by the report.

"Not only did the FBI fail to investigate the possible sexual abuse of minors by a sitting member of Congress, the bureau then tried to cover up it's shocking inaction by blaming CREW. The IG's report vindicates CREW completely."


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4488949.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Does the FBI actually do anything anymore?

Other then bust people for growing medical marijuana?

[Little Wing]

5. failure to provide information missing from the e-mails

coverup

[rocktivity]

6. If the GOP leadership had cared more about the pages than themselves

and removed Foley from both the pages' path and that anti-child exploitation committee, the situtation never would have escalated to the FBI!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Kber]

12. They probably would have held onto Foley's House seat too.

And maybe a few others as well.

Heck - their instinct to protect themselves from political fallout may have cost them their House or Senate majority.

[KansDem]

7. FBI also failed to protect Americans on 9/11

One of the New York FBI agents calls headquarters in Washington and asks for reinforcements. He wants to widen the dragnet cast for Almihdhar. The FBI agent knows how dangerous Almihdhar is, for he spent months working on the Cole case. As a result he met CIA agents who mentioned the name Almihdhar. When he reads the name again on the watch list, with the additional notation that Almihdhar is suspected of involvement in the Cole bombing, the FBI agent becomes annoyed at his CIA colleagues, for having previously kept this information from him.

But he becomes even more annoyed when his own headquarters refuses any support. Invoking the strict legal separation between intelligence and police investigations, the lawyers at the bureau's National Security Law Unit point out that the search for Almihdhar has been prompted by intelligence information.

"Someday someone will die - and wall or not - the public will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain 'problems,'" the frustrated FBI agent writes on Aug. 29, 2001 in an e-mail to his headquarters. "Let's hope the National Security Law Unit will stand behind their decisions then, especially since the biggest threat to us now, UBL, is getting the most 'protection.'"

Laurel, Maryland, Aug. 25, 2001. Almihdhar is in Room 343 of the Valencia Motel in Larel. He is not alone. Alhazmi, his brother, the pilot Hanjour and a further terrorist are also there. The five of them rarely leave the room. When the cleaning lady knocks and wants to make the beds, the terrorists open the door a crack and have her hand them fresh towels. "We thought they were gay, five men in one room," someone staying in a room next door later said. The sequence and timing of the attack have been determined. One by one, the men buy their tickets. Twelve days to go. Everything according to plan.

--more--
http://summeroftruth.org/atta.html

[SpiralHawk]

8. Commander AWOL Bush also failed to protect America on 9/11

First he ignored the Presidential Daily Briefing on August 6 that read plainly:
Bin Laden Determined to Strike in America.

Then he sat there reading My Pet Goat on the day of 9/11, doing absolutely nothing
to defend or lead America after having been told TWICE that
America was under attack.

We should not have an AWOL coke-sniffer pretending to be the commander of
our sons and daughters in uniform.

[goforit]

9. The FBI goes only when Bush tells them to. FBI needs to clean house!!!

[annabanana]

10. Just more evidence that de-politicization of the FBI

is stalled, forever on (R).

[bobthedrummer]

11. Paradox? Some of the Board of Directors of The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

pioneered resources used by law enforcement, yet some of these people and organizations have highly disturbing histories as well as political connections to this criminal administration.

I remember a statement about prosecuting human trafficking, particularly children, the Decider made in a previous SOTU address but all the good law enforcement and DoJ employees have been thwarted by the political appointment of leadership that is totally corrupted and truly evil.

"The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Board of Directors"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2280827

[orleans]

13. did you hear this on olbermann's show last friday?

The kidnapping and possible sexual abuse of Shawn Hornbeck.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Obviously something was done to keep him there.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OLBERMANN: Not obvious to Bill O‘Reilly, now trying to pretend he never said Hornbeck was not a victim, but a volunteer.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BILL O‘REILLY: The situation here for this kid looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his old parents.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OLBERMANN: And in 49 days, that man is supposed to be the keynote speaker at a $500-per-person fundraiser for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16753986/

[Divine Discontent]

14. and they're going to keep him on for that gig?

I hope not, right? sheesh... weird... weird falafel master..



www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- antibush prodem stickers/shirts

[orleans]

16. i tried to google this, for a press release and couldn't find anything

and i was looking on their website for something but couldn't find anything there either.

[bobthedrummer]

15. No, I didn't. However I did hear the Decider mention NCMEC

in the SOTU.

[bobthedrummer]

17. kick