Stop Sex Predators
Stop [...] Predators is a blog that notably scooped the mainstream media in publishing former United States Congressman Mark Foley's emails to a former congressional page (see Mark Foley scandal). Its website is "http://stopsexpredators.blogspot.com".
The blog is written anonymously and nothing is known AbOUT the author, who claims not to be working for any political organization. Images of Foley's emails appeared on the site on September 24, 2006, four days before ABC News reported on them. (Congressman Foley resigned after being told by a reporter of a second explicit IM conversation.)
The emails posted by Stop [...] Predators on September 24, 2006 were identical to copies known to several Florida newspapers for nearly a year. They had been sent to CREW on July 21, 2006, which immediately passed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which did not open an investigation based upon them. Fox and other television networks also possessed copies of the email.
Shortly after Stop [...] Predators posted images of Foley's emails, a Daily Kos user, "WHInternNow", posted links to the Stop [...] Predators blog. That same user had also claimed in a post on September 5, 2006 that "he [Foley] constantly hits on underage interns on The Hill" and mentioning "Republican bosses scared to death." Links were sent to political sites such as Wonkette, which was skeptical at first.
The writer of Stop [...] Predators has followed up on its Foley leak by posting rumors about Congressmen Jerry Weller and Phil English.
The blog was set up by an unnamed and then-recently-hired political organizer working for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy group. When the HRC found out about the employee's activity during the week of October 25, 2006, they publicly fired him for misusing the group's resources.