Republican cover-up charge over sex e-mails to boy, 16 - Scotsman

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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1454652006

REPUBLICAN Party leaders in the United States faced calls for an inquiry yesterday amid accusations they turned a blind eye to a Florida congressman who sent sexually explicit e-mails to a 16-year-old boy.

Mark Foley, 52, a deputy Republican whip, resigned last Friday following the revelations. Since then, it has emerged that he shared a series of salacious communications with at least two other messenger boys who worked on Capitol Hill.

Dennis Hastert, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, yesterday condemned Mr Foley's actions as "abhorrent" and "an obscene breach of trust", adding: "His immediate resignation must now be followed by the full weight of the criminal justice system."

But it has emerged that Mr Hastert was told about some of the e-mails months ago by congressman Thomas Reynolds, chairman of the Republican national congressional committee, who failed to pursue the matter.

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1. too little too late Hastert

the republicans have lost ALL credibility

(especially with their own)

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2. The media hasn't started referring to him as a "young man" yet?