Am I missing something? Buried at the end of a story in today's 14 Oct 2006 issue is a statement I have seen nowhere else.
"Police Find No Report of a Foley Dorm Incident
Witness in Scandal Alleged Then-Congressman Was Detained Outside Pages' Capitol Hill Residence"
By Charles Babington and Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 14, 2006; Page A04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
"Hastert's office has acknowledged that three of the speaker's aides knew of the Louisiana e-mails but that they dealt with the matter by consulting with Trandahl and without telling Hastert or Palmer."
This seems to imply that Hastert's staff knew about the "sick, sick, sick" letter much earlier than the 29 September that Hastert has been proclaiming. As far as I can tell Mr see no, hear no... has been claiming that he and his staff was completely out of the loop. Now the Post drops a bombshell that the lower-level staff knew, but that Hastert and his alter-ego Palmer were never told.
Does anyone else find this a dramatic change in the story?
Or am I misreading something? Or are Babington and Sheridan simply confused? Note that there is no date attached to this staff knowledge.