More on the results of the Democratic non-dissemination of the Foley story, from page 59:

Ultimately, as with the Miami Herald and the St. Petersburg Times, Harper’s declined to run a story on the e-mails because they “did not have absolute proof that Foley was, as one editor put it, ‘anything but creepy.’” Nevertheless, the e-mails continued to circulate throughout the spring and summer of 2006. According to the Harper’s reporter, he was disappointed with the decision not to publish, and he “passed along the emails and related materials to several people who were in a position to share them with other media outlets,” and he “subsequently learned that other people had the same information and were also contacting reporters.”… According to Nicholson, in July of 2006, the Foley campaign received word that Foley’s Democratic opponent, Tim Mahoney, intended to use the e-mails in his campaign.