[Dianna]

Thus far, the only thing some of the House leadership knew about was the e-mails to and from Representative Alexander's former page. Those e-mails were creepy, but not in and of themselves sexually explicit. The relevant people confronted Foley and told him to knock off the nonsense. He said he would.

Here is what concerns me.

If I got information that someone I knew well may be involved in something hinky, I can respond in several ways. I can dismiss it as completely absurd because the person I know just wouldn't do that (he's the chair for missing and exploited children, for God's sake!) or I can believe it and do everything I can to make sure there are big time consequences.

Our leaders did neither of these things. Instead they took a middle path.

Possibility number one: Something about Foley's behavior or personality may have led our guys to think it was possible that he was dirty, so they took the info to higher ups.

Possibility number two: They really didn't think Foley was bad, but procedures are procedures, so they notified the higher ups.

If they didn't notify the dem of the Page committee, they weren't just following procedures.

It looks to me as though our guys sure thought it was possible Foley was was screwing with kids.

[okstate]

If they didn't notify the dem of the Page committee, they weren't just following procedures.

The original source for that assertion was Roll Call, right? I mean it is possible that Dale Kildee was notified but was smart enough to deny it. It's not like we have confirmation from the GOP members of the committee that they didn't tell the Democrat. Unless I've missed something, that is.

I just think with all this swirling around the Capitol we're going to see a lot of misinformation, which we've already seen with Boehner changing his story, right?

[conservative in nyc]

If they didn't notify the dem of the Page committee, they weren't just following procedures.

They did notify the Clerk of the House, who is responsible for managing the Page program. I don't know whether there was a requirement to tell the Democrat on the committee anything procedurally.