now we know why the republican leadership covered up the mark folley queer fest on capital hill. they were all culpable. it is beginning to look like the only people in the republican are perverts.
Hastert and other GOP congressional leaders were implicated in the Foley scandal when it was revealed that they knew about the emails in late 2005, months before the scandal made headlines in September 2006. Additionally, they allowed Foley to serve as chair of a congressional caucus on missing and exploited children, right up until he resigned from Congress. Foley had also been a major proponent of anti-gay legislation.
Hastert’s office initially claimed that he first heard about the scandal when former congressional pages [URL='http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/sixteenyearold_.html']leaked the emails to ABC News and The Washington Post, breaking the story wide open. Shortly after that, he backtracked, releasing a statement admitting that he had known about Foley’s inappropriate behavior since that spring and that several congressional leaders had alerted him and his staff to the emails.
The revelations pointed to a potential cover-up. [/URL]
A House Ethics Committee investigation ultimately concluded that Hastert was [URL='http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-dennis-hastert-20150528-story.html']"willfully ignorant" in handling the revelations, and the Foley scandal cast a dark cloud over his final days in office.[/URL]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/28/dennis-hastert-mark-foley_n_7465586.html
Hastert and other GOP congressional leaders were implicated in the Foley scandal when it was revealed that they knew about the emails in late 2005, months before the scandal made headlines in September 2006. Additionally, they allowed Foley to serve as chair of a congressional caucus on missing and exploited children, right up until he resigned from Congress. Foley had also been a major proponent of anti-gay legislation.
Hastert’s office initially claimed that he first heard about the scandal when former congressional pages [URL='http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/sixteenyearold_.html']leaked the emails to ABC News and The Washington Post, breaking the story wide open. Shortly after that, he backtracked, releasing a statement admitting that he had known about Foley’s inappropriate behavior since that spring and that several congressional leaders had alerted him and his staff to the emails.
The revelations pointed to a potential cover-up. [/URL]
A House Ethics Committee investigation ultimately concluded that Hastert was [URL='http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-dennis-hastert-20150528-story.html']"willfully ignorant" in handling the revelations, and the Foley scandal cast a dark cloud over his final days in office.[/URL]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/28/dennis-hastert-mark-foley_n_7465586.html
