Just the other day, I wrote that something seemed fishy about the whole Foley-IM issue.  Now, Drudge is reporting that the whole thing was a prank gone bad.

It seems the whole IM thing was designed by the page to goad Foley into talking dirty over the Internet:

According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, goaded Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.

As I originally said, the logging of the IMs was suspicious to me.  Apparently, I was right to question it.