Is public aware Hastert was also involved in sexually explicit emails

[philb]

Hastert directly implicated in knowledge that Foley was a pedophile and in sexually explicit messages himself:

Foley wasn’t the only Repub. Congressman involved in sexually explicit and suggestive emails:

Congressman Mark Foley and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert interacted in the past exchanging sexually explicit and suggestive emails that are on record and the Repub. Leadership were aware of: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/6/25857/3685

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/6/25857/3685

On page 186 of Hastert's autobiography he brags that he has a good memory and remembers all. This hardly jibes with Hastert's bizarre story that he didn't remember Tom Reynolds or John Boehner or various aides warning him about Foley after it was apparent to anyone who didn't have his head up his ass that Foley was a dangerous child predator and a severe danger to the congressional page program.
Hastert Caught In Direct Falsehood About Foley in defense of his inactation in dealing with knowledge of Foley’s pedophile exploits
www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/oct/02/hastert_caught_in_fib_about_foley

USA TODAY, 10-12-06
The FBI has talked to Foley's former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, who resigned and announced Hastert knew of page abuse at least 3 years ago. Fordham has said he told Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer, about aspects of Foley's behavior sometime before 2004.
Two other House Republicans, Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and Rep. Thomas Reynolds of New York, have said they warned Hastert about Foley's attention to pages last spring. Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., has said he told the House clerk's office in 2000 or 2001 about e-mails reported to his office by a page. Hastert has said he doesn't remember any of these conversations

Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., the head of the page board, will meet with the ethics committee today. Shimkus has said he confronted Foley last fall after Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., reported that parents of a former page he sponsored were concerned about messages Foley was sending their son. Shimkus took then-House clerk Jeff Trandahl to meet Foley but did not tell the other members of the page board.

GOP. Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA) was apparently the first member of Congress to know about Foley's trolling for underage kids online. Alexander was the former boss of one of the pages who Foley chatted up. Alexander says that he then contacted the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee (the body in charge of electing Republicans to the House), Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY). Reynold's chief of staff is Kirk Fordham, the former chief of staff and former campaign director to Mark Foley, who admits that he was aware of Foley’s actions.

Kirk Fordham, who worked as Foley's chief of staff for 10 years, returned to Foley's side to advise him during the past couple of days. In other words, Alexander wasn't interested in reporting this to the authorities, he was interested in helping Foley by approaching "friends of Foley"? Fordham is still Reynolds' chief of staff. Why is Reynolds' chief of staff now advising Foley on this mess? This simply adds to the inherent conflicts of interest that have dogged this "investigation" from the beginning. (Fordham has since resigned since his longtime involvement became highly embarrassing to Repub. Leadership)

[Botany]

1. Denny might remember the e mails about this:

[mod mom]

2. Are the Kos emails a joke?

[KoKo]

3. According to the commenters there, YES! The poster apparently does

good comedy writing late at night according to Kossaks who have read him before.

It's kind of a barf alert if one is ready to eat lunch though. :eyes:

[philb]

4. Daily Kos usually tries to insure general accuracy- but if this was

someone's joke it should have been made more clear.
Many take the Foley coverup seriously.
and its hard to know how far the coverup went