"ABC news website has a video of Foley praising a 2002 graduating class of pages"
What bothers me more than anything else is everyone running around trying to find a guilty party. This guy has probably done enormous damage to kids. It will come out. But rather than allowing it to be a moral issue, we are desperate to turn it into a political issue. As a result, a good man like Dennis Hastert is being railroaded simply because he sits in the firing line. Nobody is prepared to look at and understand just how deceptive these predators can become. I think we are making a terrible mistake in not allowing to be as simple as it appears in the first instance. The perp is the problem.
Nobody is prepared to look at and understand just how deceptive these predators can become. That's why when Hastert saw a warning sign like the creepy emails, he should have had an in-depth investigation, rather than Shimkus asking Foley and taking his word for it.
You can't just say, gee, sexual predators are deceptive, there's no way they could have known -- BECAUSE sexual predators are deceptive, they SHOULD NOT have taken Foley's word, and they SHOULD have taken the situation seriously and had an actual investigation.