[TexKat]

"House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post last night that he had learned this spring of inappropriate 'contact' between Foley and a 16-year-old page. Boehner said he then told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). Boehner later contacted The Post and said he could not remember whether he talked to Hastert.

It was not immediately clear what actions Hastert took. His spokesman had said earlier that the speaker did not know of the sexually charged online exchanges between Foley and the boy."

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/09/why_did_foley_k.html

[Dianna]

"House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post last night that he had learned this spring of inappropriate 'contact' between Foley and a 16-year-old page. Boehner said he then told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). Boehner later contacted The Post and said he could not remember whether he talked to Hastert.

I wish I knew precisely what they meant by "inappropriate contact". Does that mean Boehner read the e-mails, or heard something about the e-mails, or saw one e-mail? That's just frustrating.

So did Boehner realize that by opening his mouth he implicated Hastert and then needed to take it back? I would think that off the cuff you might not remember something that you would remember later. But you wouldn't know something right away (I talked to Hastert) and then NOT know it after thinking about it (No, I didn't talk to Hastert).

Did he talk to someone, who may have been Hastert? Or did he talk to no one at all?

[trumandogz]

If that is true Boerhner and Hastert may find themselves out of work.

If they knew these e-mails and IM's existed and did nothing they are complicit in anything that Foley did that was illegal.