You really have some reading to catch up on.
The kid gave the government these IMs years ago, to report on his behavior. Read the bogus blog post from Drudge, and then things come into focus.
I don't know what Drudge has, but you seem to be confusing IMs and emails, again. The Democrats were the only ones who knew of the IMs before this month.
Well, I went to Drudge. It doesn't say that the kid reported the IMs, it says the Kirk Fordham claims that he told Hasterts's office three years ago, but refuses to give the names. This is a big nothing.
Not according to Brian Ross who was just on with O'Reilly. According to Ross, nobody had the IMs until the Pages (yes he said PAGES) came forward to ABC. Therefore, he said, he was quite confident Hastert never saw them (or anyone else for that matter). The email, which was ambiguous, was from a shared years ago. Not the explicit IMs according to Ross.
Link?
I've read various articles trying to find out exactly how the IMs got to ABC and that information is not provided anywhere.