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Title: Feds probe trip that Kolbe made with pages
Source: MSNBC (NBC News)
URL Source: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15249733/
Published: Oct 13, 2006
Author: Jim Popkin, Aram Roston and the NBC News
Post Date: 2006-10-13 19:29:29 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 108
Comments: 1

Feds probe trip that Kolbe made with pages

NBC exclusive: Congressman alleged to have been inappropriate in '96

By Jim Popkin, Aram Roston and the NBC News Investigative Unit
Updated: 1:55 p.m. ET Oct 13, 2006

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years ago that included two teenage congressional pages, a Justice Department spokesman told NBC News. NBC News first reported on the camping and rafting trip on Tuesday.

A spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington said that the U.S. attorney in Arizona has started a "preliminary assessment" of the trip, after an unidentified source made allegations about the congressman's behavior on the expedition.

"The U.S. attorney is looking into allegations about the congressman taking a trip with the two pages," the spokesman said.

As NBC News first reported, Kolbe took a tour down the Grand Canyon in July 1996 with a group that included two 17-year-old males who had recently left the congressional page program.

National Park Service employees also were on the three-day trip, along with several Kolbe staffers and the congressman's sister. Kolbe, the only openly gay Republican legislator in both houses of Congress, had not acknowledged his homosexuality publicly at the time.

Kolbe's office issued a statement to NBC News denying that anything improper had happened. "The rafting trip back in 1996 consisted of five current staff, two former pages, and his sister," a spokeswoman for Kolbe said. "There is absolutely no basis and no truth to any [allegations of] inappropriate behavior."

The FBI, which normally would be expected to carry out the actual investigation on behalf of the local U.S. attorney's office, would not comment.

Wyn Hornbuckle, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Arizona, said, "We are aware of the reports about the trip and we're responding appropriately."

Kolbe's spokeswoman said she was not aware of the U.S. attorney's initial inquiry.

NBC News interviewed several people who were on the trip, and their accounts vary. One participant, who requested anonymity, said he was uncomfortable with the attention Kolbe paid to one of the former pages. He was "creeped out by it," he said, adding that there was a lot of "fawning, petting and touching" on the teenager's arms, shoulders and back by Kolbe.

However, Gary Cummins, the deputy superintendent of the Grand Canyon National Park at the time — and who also was on the trip — said he did not see anything inappropriate take place.

NBC also interviewed the two former pages, who are now in their late 20s. One of them said that Kolbe was a gentleman and never acted in an improper fashion. He recalled that the pair spent time in Kolbe's house at one point — and briefly were alone with him on the trip — and that Kolbe always acted professionally and decently.

The other would not comment on Kolbe's behavior during the trip or characterize it in any way.

"I don't want to get into the details," he said. "I just don't want to get into this... because I might possibly be considered for a job in the administration."

However, the former page — who is the one to whom Kolbe allegedly paid special attention — said he had a "blast" on the trip and did not report anything improper to his parents or any House officials after the trip. He said he has a favorable impression of the page program to this day and likes Kolbe.

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#1. To: aristeides, Elliot Jackalope, Arator, Coral Snake (#0)

Scout troops sing this (or at least they used to), I guess it needs a few verses to be as progressive as these NeoConservatives:

I'm Happy When I'm Hiking
English hiking song

Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp,tramp.

I'm happy when I'm hiking, pack upon my back.
I'm happy when I'm hiking, off the beaten track.
Out in the open country, that's the place for me
With a true Scouting friend to the journeys end,
Ten, twenty, thirty, fourty, fifty miles a day.

Tramp, tramp, tramp ...

Most Profound Man in Iraq — An unidentified farmer in a fairly remote area who, after being asked by Reconnaissance Marines if he had seen any foreign fighters in the area replied "Yes, you."

robin  posted on  2006-10-13   20:15:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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