WASHINGTON (CNN) -- CNN today landed the first television interview with Lane Hudson, the once anonymous author of the Stop Sex Predators blog that first posted emails between former Congressman Mark Foley and a teenage house page, days before the story broke in the mainstream news media.

Hudson, who has worked in Democratic politics and at one time on Capitol Hill, told CNN Radio's Lisa Goddard Foley's contact with pages was "the elephant in the room that no one was talking about." He says he decided to post the emails after giving them to a reporter who did not run a story. Hudson went online "because the blogosphere is not subject to the same pressures as the mainstream media." Hudson has not said how he acquired the emails, only that they "weren't hard to come by."

Hudson says he himself received emails from Foley after meeting the then Congressman in a Capitol Hill bar in 1995, when Hudson was 18. Hudson said the emails were "inappropriate" but not sexually explicit, asking whether he "would like to go to dinner, have drinks -- that kind of thing."

Hudson's identity was revealed last month after another anonymous blogger tracked him down. Hudson was subsequently fired from his job with the Human Rights Campaign, a gay and lesbian rights group, for inappropriate use of organizational resources.