Covering up the truth becomes the greater and more egregious crime. Didn't Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton's follies teach these congressional hypocrites how to handle these situations?
Among those who earlier this year became aware of the fall 2005 communications between Mr. Foley and the 16-year-old page were:
1. Representative Rodney Alexander, Republican of Louisiana
2. Representative John A. Boehner, the majority leader
3. Representative Thomas M. Reynolds of New York
4. Speaker J. Dennis Hastert
"Reynolds claimed Mr. Alexander told him that the parents didn't want the matter pursued. Reynolds told the speaker of the conversation Mr. Alexander had with me,".
The speaker's office said Mr. Hastert did not recall any such discussion and had no previous knowledge of the matter. "While the speaker does not explicitly recall this conversation, he has no reason to dispute Congressman Reynolds recollection that he reported to him on the problem and its resolution," the statement said.
The statement, issued after senior aides, the House clerk and legal advisers huddled for much of Saturday in the Capitol, said senior staff members in the speaker's office first learned of the e-mail messages from Mr. Alexander's office in the fall of 2005 and took steps to investigate.
They have had these transcripts but they choose to turn ther backs on a crime they pretend to care about.
Aides to the speaker and other Congressional Republican leaders said that the messages brought to their attention, though described as "overfriendly," were much less explicit than the others that came to light after ABC News first disclosed the e-mail correspondence with Mr. Alexander's page.
Shame, shame, shame... Claiming to be the party of family values and Christian morals ~ Hastert, Boehner, Reynolds and Alexander were more interested in covering up one of their own rather than pursuing Foley's vile, hypocritical and despicable acts.
To hide behind the excuse of Foley just being "over friendly" is downright dumb, moronic and idiotic. These men, if they are indeed men, should be held to account for their cover-up of a pedophile.