Please read the
Roll Call story. Nancy Pelosi (as usual) is politicizing something that shouldn't be all that political, and the media reports are picking up on her
press release. So far, it has only been reported that the House knew about the creepy (but not sexually explicit) e-mails from Foley to Representative Alexander's page during Hurricane Katrina. They knew nothing about the sexually explicit IMs that were only made public today.
Basically, when Representative Alexander learned about the e-mails, he told the Clerk of the House, who is responsible for managing the Page program. The Clerk told Representative Shimkus, and they began an investigation. They ultimately told Foley to knock it off and stop contacting the page. According to Roll Call, Speaker Hastert himself knew nothing, although a Hastert staffer was told about it.
As previously reported, Congressman Alexander also told Representative Boehner.