Why Capitol Pages Fear Retaliation

[Kefka]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/100206.html

It now appears that one of the chief reasons why Foley’s e-mails remained secret for so long – and why some former pages still won’t speak publicly – is that they recognize that divulging what Foley did to them could kill their hopes for future careers in politics.

This fear of retaliation from today’s take-no-prisoners Republican power structure in Washington has been a little-noted subtext to the stories about Foley’s sudden resignation on Sept. 29 over his e-mails to pages since 2003.

I suspect the panic reaction to the scandal is because some of these liasons went beyond the email stage.