As FoleyGate continues to swirl out of control perhaps a timeline is in order to help keep things straight. You can look at one here, here, here, or here.
Longtime Republican was source of e-mails The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page says the documents came to him from a House GOP aide. That aide has been a registered Republican since becoming eligible to vote, said the source, who showed The Hill public records supporting his claim...

Reynolds' Gay Chief of Staff Kirk Fordham resigns, newswires characterizes it as "Aide Says He Reported Foley 3 Years Ago" (AP)...the congressional aide who last week counseled Foley to quit said in an AP interview he first warned Hastert's aides more than three years ago about Foley's worrisome conduct toward pages. That was long before GOP leaders acknowledged hearing of it...

ABC's Brian Ross gets it right - "Top GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal" The chief of staff for Rep. Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were raised about his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal... sources said Fordham, a former chief of staff for Mark Foley, had urged Repub leaders last spring not to raise questionable Foley e-mails with the full Congressional Page Board, (massive update below the fold)... , made up of two Repubs and a Dem. "He begged them not to tell the page board," said one of the Republican sources. People familiar with Fordham's side of the story, however, said Fordham was being used as a scapegoat by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. They said Fordham had repeatedly warned Hastert's staff about Foley's "problem" with pages, but little was done. Fordham's Statement.

Foley's Former Chief of Staff Says Foley's Behavior Was No Secret to Speaker Hastert As the FBI investigation picked up steam, with agents contacting former pages across the country, there were new allegations that Foley's suspect behavior towards pages was no secret to the Speaker of the House and his top staff for at least three years. Kirk Fordham, former chief of staff for Foley, told ABC News today that sometime in late 2003, he told the Speaker's chief of staff that Foley was getting too close to young male pages....

New Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote
Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in 2003 to engage in Internet sex with a high school student who had served as a congressional page, according to new Internet instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages. ABC News now has obtained 52 separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys under the age of 18...

"The List" (of Gay GOP Aides on the Hill)
...Let's be clear about one thing: the Mark Foley scandal is not about homosexuality. Some family value conservatives are suggesting it is. But anytime a gay Republican is outed by events, a dicey issue is raised: what about those GOPers who are gay and who serve a party that is anti-gay? Are they hypocrites, opportunists, or just confused individuals? Is it possible to support a party because you adhere to most of its tenets--even if that party refuses to recognize you as a full citizen? The men on The List might want to think hard about these questions--as they probably already have--for if I have a copy of The List, there's a good chance it will be appearing soon on a website near everyone.

Debate shifts after Foley says he's gay
By finally acknowledging after years of evasion that he is gay, Mark Foley has altered the debate among conservatives and gays over his overtures to male pages in Congress. Some conservatives say House Republican leaders knew previously of Foley's sexual orientation and were too lax in investigating his actions for fear of seeming bigoted. Some gays blame Foley's personal problems on being so long in the closet while representing a party hostile to many gay-rights causes. "This is the problem with the closet: it's a terrible place to be, and it's got to be worse if you're a Republican," said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass...

Laying off Foley was part of GOP self-preservation
How many people knew Mark Foley is gay? About 96.8 percent of the relevant political universe. How many people knew he was a chicken hawk? Well, now that's an interesting question, isn't it? Along with when they knew and what, if anything, they did about it. It is simply not credible that a succession of House leaders — Speaker Dennis Hastert, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Thomas B. Reynolds and page board chairman John Shimkus, among others — knew for months about "overly friendly" e-mails from Foley to a former page and the penny didn't drop. Even if these men want to plead guilty to obtuseness, almost all of them have gay aides or associates who could have taken one look at the "overly friendly" e-mails, even with Foley's name blacked out, and advised them what seemed to be afoot.

Democrat Mahoney Has the Edge in Race for Seat Foley Vacated
What until last Friday appeared a safely Republican seat in Florida’s 16th District is now anything but, in the wake of the resignation of six-term Republican Rep. Mark Foley — and the ballooning scandal surrounding inappropriate e-mails and instant messages he sent to teenage male congressional pages, and the Republican leadership’s handling of the situation. CQPolitics.com, which on Friday changed its rating on the Florida 16 race to No Clear Favorite from Safe Republican, now rates the race as Leans Democratic...

Florida constituents 'disgusted' by Foley accusations
Mark Foley's former constituents shifted their anger Sunday from the disgraced Republican to House GOP leaders, who knew for months about inappropriate e-mails between Foley and at least one teenage page...

Bush Says He Is ‘Shocked’ by Scandal
Bush said today that he was “dismayed and shocked” by the e-mails and instant messages that former Representative Mark Foley sent to teenage Congressional pages, directly addressing for the first time a matter that threatens to cost the Republican Party seats in the November election. Mr. Bush also said he fully supported House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert...

Alexander backs off claim Hastert knew Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., the congressman who sponsored the page at the heart of the recent Capitol Hill sex scandal furor and initially said Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., "knew about the e-mails that we knew about," including one in which Foley asked the page to send his picture, has now backed off that comment, saying he discussed the e-mails with Hastert's aides, not the speaker himself. "I guess that's a poor choice of words that I made there,"... (somebody delivered a smackdown)

Boehner Points Finger at the Speaker In a radio interview with 700 WLW radio in Cincinnati, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) placed responsibility for the Foley matter not being handled properly on House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL). "I believe I talked to the Speaker and he told me it had been taken care of," said Boehner. "And, and, and my position is it's in his corner, it's his responsibility. The Clerk of the House who runs the page program, the Page Board—all report to the Speaker. And I believe it had been dealt with...."

Closeted Gay Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) Leads Hastert Defense
I just watched Tucker Carlson's show on MSNBC and was astonished to see none other than closeted gay Republican Patrick McHenry (R-NC) vigorously defending Denny Hastert! Have House Republicans gone completely insane??? McHenry has quite a reputation on Capitol Hill, according to The Hill, a pro-Republican publication:

Fox News Identifies Foley as Democrat
Let's get one thing out of the way right up front: I believe that most thinking Americans understood long ago that Fox News is to journalism, what the Republican party is to ethics -- in other words, the two just ain't related. As if we needed yet more proof that Fox might as well be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican party, there they were last night, in three separate video cutaways, identifying disgraced Republican Congressman Mark Foley as…. a Democrat.

Republicans Blame Dems For Foley E-Mail Leak
Amid the controversy over whether Speaker Hastert and other Republican leaders did enough to address former GOP Rep. Mark Foley's e-mails to a former House page, Republicans have been conducting a behind-the-scenes campaign to redirect attention away from themselves. Within 24 hours....

The Eggman Says Kids Were "Egging the Congressman On"
The Republican coverup for La Cage Aux Foley has put all the tentacles of the Mighty Wurlitzer into overdrive... On MSNBC we learn from Mike Viqueria that it's all just the Democrats trying to use this as an election stunt and kids were routinely warned about LOTS of Congressmen, Tony Snow says on behalf of the President it's nothing more than a few off-color emails, Dennis Hastert thinks the important thing to investigate is who leaked the IMs in the first place (probably a danger to national security), and now Matt Drudge says - yes, wait for it - it's the kid's fault for (I kid you not) "Egging the Congressman On" (says the Eggman)...

Clerk asked to look into report of Foley incident at page's dorm
A senior House Republican has asked the House clerk to look into allegations that then-Rep. Mark Foley was turned away from the congressional page dorm on Capitol Hill after arriving there intoxicated one night. Lawmakers have been talking about the alleged incident since Friday, when Foley resigned...

Gingrich: Dems' sex scandals are worse
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley. Gingrich said Democrats have wanted to punish their offenders less than the GOP. "What we don't have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality..."

WHAT THE PAGES KNEW - "There was a moniker by which we described Foley. It was F.F.F. ... that stands for Foley the f-- from Florida. And it was kind of a running joke"...

October Surprise in This Campaign Puts Republicans On the Spot
The October surprise came early this election year and has Republicans on the defensive, searching for a way to change the subject from congressional scandals and an unpopular war. This was supposed to be the month when Republicans pulled out all the stops, painting Democrats as weak on fighting terrorism and highlighting congressional accomplishments on national security...

House Speaker Hastert In a Hot Spot Criticism Over Foley Affair Intensifies -- and It's Not All Coming From Democrats - ...'If We Lose': Hastert's Warning - While some rallied around the speaker, ABC News asked several conservative Republican congressmen about their position on whether Hastert should stay on, and was told they wanted to wait a couple days and see how the story played out before making a decision...

Resign, Mr. Speaker "Moonie" Washington Times Op-Ed

Foley acquaintances question alcoholism
When disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley announced he was entering rehab for treatment of alcoholism and "other behavioral problems," some of those who have known him for years were shocked and suspicious. Some friends and acquaintances said they rarely saw him drink. A former colleague, Rep. Peter King (news, bio, voting record), R-N.Y., said on Fox News Channel: "I don't buy this at all. I think this is a phony defense. The fact is, I think he's responsible for what he did here and I think it's a gimmick."

Mark Foley claims being molested as teen
Former Rep. Mark Foley, under investigation for sending lurid Internet messages to young male Capitol Hill pages, issued a series of revelations from rehab, including a claim that he had been sexually abused as a teen. Attorney David Roth, speaking on Foley's behalf at a Florida news conference Tuesday, said Foley was molested between ages 13 and 15 by a clergyman...

Candidates divest themselves of Foley contributions
Republicans in tight re-election contests were unloading contributions they received over the years from Mark Foley, the former congressman ensnared in an e-mail sex scandal. But the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has received $550,000 from Foley since 1996, will keep its money, committee spokesman Carl Forti said. "We will be using the money like every other contribution -- to help elect Republicans across the country," Forti said...

So Who's Keeping Foley's Money -- And Who's Unloading It?
...So who's keeping Foley's cash and who's getting rid of it? The Associated Press reports that Allen is giving his $2,000 in Foley-bucks to charity, along with GOP Rep Heather Wilson, who's getting rid of the $8,000 she's received from Foley between 1998 and 2002. The NRCC, meanwhile, is keeping the $550,000 it's received from Foley since 1996....

What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?
House Republican leaders are being caught in the back-blast of the uproar over a Florida Republican congressman who sent inappropriate emails to a House page. The office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who earlier said he’d learned about the e-mails only last week, acknowledged that aides referred the matter to authorities last fall...

Keep up to date with FoleyGate. Check out the compilations at FoleyGate Update and FoleyGate Update #2