Hastert Contradicts Ally's Story

[Rose Siding]

Hastert said that when the head of the House Page Board spoke with disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) in 2005 about the emails, he specifically asked the now-disgraced congressman if there were any others. According to Hastert, Foley told the board chair, Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), there were none.

"(Shimkus) asked him if there was any other messages," Hastert told reporters this afternoon. "(Foley) said no."

"That's what we did, and the parents were happy," Hastert said, referring to the parents of the former page who'd received Foley's emails.

That version of events is squarely at odds with what Shimkus told the Chicago Tribune yesterday:

Shimkus acknowledged he did not ask Foley whether there were any other electronic exchanges with pages, such as the sexually suggestive instant messages from 2003 that surfaced on Friday and led to Foley's swift resignation.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001730.php

Someone "misspoke" or "erred" or "was misinformed" or........LIARS

[Skidmore]

1. Give the guy a break. It's hard work trying to CYA

and everyone elses too and not have something flapping in the breeze.

[Rose Siding]

2. No WONDER they don't want to answer any questions

It's probably easier to keep the stories straight with press releases.

He only took 9 questions and this was an answer to one of them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100500938.html?nav=rss_politics