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John Hinderaker: Placing Children At Risk?
by hilzoy
John Hinderaker suggests that Democrats covered up Congressman Mark Foley’s boy problem, a charge for which there is no evidence. One wonders, though, whether that is exactly what John Hinderaker did.
How did the email and instant messages that triggered the scandal come to light? It has been reported that at least one set of emails became public after they were sent to “a registered Republican” — a phrase that surely describes John Hinderaker. But when did that happen? The messages themselves are three years old. When did John Hinderaker find out about them? Did he sit on them for a while, in order to prevent them from coming out in time to influence the Presidential election, or to preserve a Republican Congressional majority?
I don’t know the answers to these questions, but they are important and need to be answered. If John Hinderaker has known for some time about Foley’s transgressions but failed to act until now, he endangered more boys–and why? Solely to advance his partisan political interests.
One would hope that the Ethics Committee will subpoena the reporters who broke the Foley story to find out where they got their information, and when. The question to be answered is, What did John Hinderaker know, and when did he know it?
Is it possible that John Hinderaker deliberately delayed disclosure of Foley’s transgressions, thereby endangering the security of current Congressional pages and other teenage boys, solely to advance the political interests of his allies? One would certainly hope not. But it is obviously a question that needs to be investigated and answered.
I also wonder: could John Hinderaker be the anthrax killer? Has he ever denied it, or agreed to take a polygraph? I don’t know the answers to these questions, but they are important. Inquiring minds would like to know the answers.
Some might also say that John Hinderaker is a torture-loving disgrace to our common humanity and flays kittens for sport. I couldn’t possibly comment.
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