Justice report faults FBI in Foley case

[Kadie]

Justice report faults FBI in Foley case
By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago


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

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.

"We believe the FBI should have considered taking some steps to ensure that any minors in the Congressional page program were not at risk of predatory behavior by Foley," Fine reported.

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[Kagemusha]

1. Very good that the FBI's putrid blaming of the watchdogs was slammed

And slammed hard, justly so.