Novak: Senate Conservatives Knew About Craig’s ‘Weird Conduct,’ ‘Didn’t Do Anything About It’

[babylonsister]

Cripes, what or who else are they hiding?


http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/06/novak-craig-secret/

Novak: Senate Conservatives Knew About Craig’s ‘Weird Conduct,’ ‘Didn’t Do Anything About It’

On Bloomberg Television today, right-wing pundit Robert Novak revealed that “sources in the Senate” have told him that Senate conservatives had prior knowledge about Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-ID) “problem” but intentionally kept it “in the closet”:

I have talked to several of my sources in the Senate, and this came as a surprise to me…They knew about it. They knew that he had this problem, and it was in the closet. And it was not just a homosexual relationship. It was this weird conduct. They didn’t do anything about it.

Watch it at link~

Novak added, “So Republicans, again, as in the case of Congressman Foley, their cover-up is coming back to haunt them.” Novak did not elaborate on what “weird conduct” Craig has carried out in the past.

Recall, then-Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) “and at least three of his aides were told of allegations that then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) had improper e-mail contacts with a former House page months before the incident became public.”

Ultimately, at least a dozen GOP lawmakers and aides admitted to having knowledge of Foley’s lewd behavior, “some of them for a year or more,” but kept the matter secret.

If Novak’s sources are correct, then the Senate ethics investigation into Craig — which conservatives have been aggressively pushing for — should determine what Craig has done in the past and which Senators were involved in covering it up.

[malaise]

1. Fuck Novak

His party has covered up way more than this -including all the war crimes.

[BornagainDUer]

6. Your response made me think..

Novak is going after Larry because the REpug party wants him gone. Novak is the consummate media whore. In this case he's trying to make it look like he's even handed. (((I've been trying to get a picture of him put up at Wikipedia in the "Media Whore" category)))

[Canuckistanian]

2. Repub Senators and Reps covered something up? Say it ain't so!

You know, either I'm becoming extremely jaded or have outrage fatigue, but somehow, this doesn't even register with me.

Now, if the Democrats DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT, it would get my attention.

[loudsue]

3. What it tells me is that Craig crossed the wrong repuke, or this never

would have gotten out. Same with Foley. The media doesn't let something like that out on a republican unless there is a payback due.

Remember the "aspens turning"? They only allow the aspens to turn that they want to. If the media was REALLY serious about corruption, Sibel Edmonds would be a household name by now, and junior's use of coke and his drunkenness would be all about the news.

[laylah]

4. I weep because I know you are so very right! n/t

[Major Hogwash]

5. Joe Scarborough said he was warned when he was elected in 1994 about Craig.

Of course, they knew about it. They condoned by it staying mum about it for all these years.