that's who I always feel sorry for, the wife and kids caught up in the scandal. Craig, OTOH, seems to be as big a doofus as Gary Hart ("Follow me around, boys! I'm not doing anything wrong!") The big local paper, Idaho Statesman, did a huge, carefully researched story on the allegations made by the "gay activist blogger" Mike Adams last fall. They interviewed tons of people going back to Craig's college days and finally had an interview with Craig and his wife on May 14.
Until Monday's report, Craig was facing a lone credible accuser. Rogers told the Statesman he had lost track of his other two sources, who he said described encounters with the senator, one in Idaho and one in Seattle. Rogers concedes he doesn't know those two sources' last names. "I was an amateur," he told the Statesman.
The Statesman followed dozens of leads about alleged sexual partners. Two prevalent rumors swirl around two men who are dead. The Statesman has found no written record of sexual intimacy between those men and Craig. Relatives of those men are dead, unaware of proof to substantiate the rumors, or unreachable.
Two other alleged partners unequivocally denied having been intimate with Craig. Other accounts are simply unfounded. Some were inconclusive.
There are, however, the two men who told the Statesman Craig made passes at them. Craig denied those accounts in his May 14 interview.
Apparently things settled down after the interview. So what was Craig thinking? That he got away with it before and could do it again? Sheesh. |
