Where the heck is this story now? Anyone care to give a 2 sentence summary please. Thanks
1. Hastert will not resign, and is opening an investigation, as well as referring this to the FBI and Florida state investigators.
2. Although Hastert wanted to appoint Louis Freeh to head the investigation, Pelosi refused.
3. ABC had a story on its web site about 3 additional pages saying they had been approached by Foley, but the pages have no proof. ABC did not run the story on their nightly newscast, but Fox reported this information in their headlong rush towards losing viewers.
5. Several questionalble connections between someone who appears to be Matthew Loraditch have surfaced, including a gay porn site.
6. Meanwhile, Jordan has left Oklahoma (according to the Istook campaign) and has hired a noted criminal defense lawyer.
7. A list of supposedly gay people in Congress, including staff, is being circulated and there are threats to reveal it today.
I think those are the major developments since Wednesday night, but I could have missed some stuff in all of the fast-breaking threads.
The so called ''kid'' was 18 not 16 at the time of the IM'S. It was a prank on Foley, that the page drew him into so he could laugh about it with his buddies. The kid has hired a high priced lawyer.
That's the point. It's so incredibly convoluted that no one knows what's happening. This might be deliberate, as the Dems realized it was spinning toward them, or it could be like we had with Clinton/Lewinsky, just in a "lull" between big, important data dumps.