Now, I don’t have any special knowledge of any kind, but one thing has struck me strange about the tale of former Rep. Foley and the infamous IMs and e-mails.  Certain elements of the tale smell funny to me.

I can understand the e-mails still being around.  I am notoriously bad about not getting rid of old, deleted e-mails.  I could see this page having deleted them but not gotten rid of them completely.  The IMs are a different story and raise an interesting question.  Why would anyone be logging the IMs he received?

Logging IMs isn’t something that happens automatically.  The user would have to take action to cause that to happen.  Why would the page have done that?  I have to wonder if this wasn’t a set up from the beginning.  You get a kid to catch Foley’s eye.  Whe he starts getting IMs, you have the kid log them.  Then, when the time is right, you release the more lurid parts to the media.  We don’t have all the facts because we only know of the IMs that have been released.  There could be many others that contain the proof that this was a railroad job from the beginning.  Foley surely wouldn’t have kept the IMs.  We will likely never know tha truth.

None of this excuses Foley’s behavior.  Based on everything we know, he was a scumbag that went after boys.  He deserves everything that happens to him and more.  I just know that the logging of the IMs hints at something more sinister behind the entire thing.