Somethin's a bit rotten with our federal bureau of "investigation" when they not only took no action on this matter but turned around and deliberately lied about it:

quote:

FBI: We Flubbed Foley E-mails January 22, 2007 11:58 AM Jason Ryan and Brian Ross Report: The FBI should have done more to investigate the Mark Foley e-mails or, alternatively, notified House authorities in charge of the congressional page program, the FBI's inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, said in a report today. In effect, the report finds the FBI's inaction contributed to the failure of officials to detect Foley's inappropriate behavior, which eventually led to his resignation when ABC News revealed more sexually explicit e-mails and instant message. Instead, the inspector general found, the supervisory agent decided there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing and "placed the e-mails in her in box and took no further action" even though she found the e-mails "odd." The e-mails were provided to the FBI in July 2006 by the non-profit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The inspector general said the FBI "at a minimum" should have told CREW it had decided against an investigation because "CREW was relying on the FBI to pursue the matter and as a result had not notified anyone else about the e-mails."

Now the lie:

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The inspector general also concluded that widely reported comments by FBI officials on the e-mails provided by CREW were "not accurate." Unnamed officials were quoted as saying "the reason that the FBI did nothing further at the time" was because CREW had provided heavily redacted e-mails and refused to provide information about the source of the e-mails. The inspector general said it was unable to determine who was responsible for making the inaccurate statements to the media.es to current and former pages. While finding no official misconduct on the part of FBI officials, the inspector general said "the e-mails provided enough troubling indications on their face" to have warranted follow-up steps. http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter...e_flubbed_.html

CREW has more here:

http://blog.citizensforethics.org/node/524

Nice job there FBI - only problem is you got caught being completely full of it.

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