Kolbe Did No Wrong on Camping Trip - UK Guardian Unlimited

[helderheid]

Wednesday June 6, 2007 9:31 PM

By JENNIFER TALHELM

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department investigators have absolved former Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe of wrongdoing in his relationships with House pages, Kolbe says.

In a statement Wednesday, Kolbe and his Washington lawyers said they received notice Tuesday that investigators had completed their work on the preliminary inquiry opened by federal prosecutors last fall, and saw no reason to pursue it further.

Prosecutors began looking into Kolbe's relationships with House pages after hearing reports that he took a Fourth of July camping trip to the Grand Canyon with two former pages and others in 1996.

The inquiry was launched amid a separate investigation into sexually explicit messages sent to high school-aged congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who resigned over the issue last fall.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. Didn't I read that his sister and several other adults were there also? nt

[helderheid]

3. I hadn't heard that. Don't know!

[youngdem]

2. This was payback character assassination for the Foley thing

That's all. Now, everyone will remember he was under investigation for being a pedophile or something similar, all because he didn't help cover up Foley's inappropriate behavior.

Anyone need anymore proof that the justice system is simply a tool of retribution and coercion for these crooks?

[Captain Hilts]

4. That's what I think. nt