The Tip of the Iceberg?

As a footnote to the ongoing Mark Foley fracas, here is an excerpt from an article that Saliba Said left on my computer a while back regarding the possibility--dare we say probability?--of an underage sex/porn ring based in Washington that may or may not have involved Hunter S. Thompson. Does our federal government have its own joy division?

Photographer for White House child sex ring arrested after Thompson
suicide**

/by Tom Flocco
/*
WASHINGTON -- March 13, 2005 -- TomFlocco.com -- Photographer Russell E.
"Rusty" Nelson was recently arrested two days after journalist Hunter
Thompson reportedly committed suicide four weeks ago on February 10,
according to two phone interviews with attorney John DeCamp last week.

Nelson was allegedly employed by a former Republican Party activist to
take pictures of current or retired U.S. House-Senate members and other
prominent government officials engaging in sexual criminality by
receiving or committing sodomy and other sex acts on children during the
Reagan-Bush 41 administrations.
Hunter S ThompsonHunter Thompson?s death and the news blackout of Rusty
Nelson?s simultaneous arrest raise questions that someone may be
attempting to limit Nelson?s freedom or threaten him, since according to
testimony, both men had allegedly witnessed homosexual prostitution and
pedophile criminal acts in a suppressed but far-reaching child sex-ring
probe closely linked to Senate and House members--but also former
President George H. W. Bush. [In U.S. District Court testimony, Rusty
Nelson told Judge Warren Urbom he took 20,000 to 30,000 pictures,
2-5-1999, p.52]

Pedophile victim Paul Bonacci--kidnapped and forced into sex slavery
between the ages of 6 and 17--told U.S. District Court Judge Warren
Urbom in sworn testimony [pp.105, 124-126] on February 5, 1999: "Where
were the parties?...down in Washington, DC...and that was for
sex...There was sex between adult men and other adult men but most of it
had to do with young boys and young girls with the older
folks...specifically for sex with minors...Also in Washington, DC, there
were parties after a party...there were a lot of parties where there
would be senators and congressmen who had nothing to do with the sexual
stuff. But there were some senators and congressmen who stayed for the
[pedophile sex] parties afterwards...on a lot of the trips he took us on
he had us, I mean, I met some people that I don't feel comfortable
telling their name because I don't want to --- ...Q: Are you
scared?...Yes..."

DeCamp, a former Nebraska state senator and decorated Vietnam War vet,
told /TomFlocco.com/ "there are tons of pictures still left; law
enforcement is currently looking for them," adding, "you can also assume
there are senators and congressmen implicated; otherwise this would not
be such a big issue." But no federal official has stepped forward to
protect Rusty Nelson's life, as Congress would be reluctant to hold
hearings or force a federal prosecutor to probe its own members for sex
acts with children--still punishable by law.