The artilce makes perfectly clear that Hastert and the leadership were concerned enough about the emails that they investigated further but *didnt find anything*.
They got assurances from Foley (oops) and had no further evidence that would warrant publicly disclosing, forcing resignation etc.
They were completely unaware of the IM, and even today there is no evidence nor even allegation of actual advances beyond what was in the IM messages. This doesnt go as far as what Gerry Studds, gay Democrat, did in 1980s, having sex with pages.
hindsight is 20/20, but I dont see how the leadership could have anticipated something that was beign kept in store for a campaign.
They would have been accused of bashing gays if they had further investigated on this flimsy evidence. It seems like a lot of them knew that Foley was gay. Plus the boy's parents did not want it pursued any further than to warn Foley.
I understand that D.C. has the legal age at 16 years. Maybe there is a good reason for that. Kind of convenient for those in power.
Maybe it's time for ALL of the gays in the House & Senate to be investigated. Who knows what IMs are being sent out from them to young men!!
The democRATS might get what they wish for.
The artilce makes perfectly clear that Hastert and the leadership were concerned enough about the emails that they investigated further but *didnt find anything*.
According to everything I've seen, they didn't find anything because they didn't look. They asked Foley, he denied anything wrong, and they accepted that. I'll repeat from my first post: "Any administrator worth his salt would worry that there was more, and would check with current and past pages to see if there was a pattern of problem behavior. " If that was done, we've not heard about it. I'd be happy to hear that there was that sort of investigation.