Hastert's Office Responds To Fordham
Ron Bonjean, communications director for Speaker Dennis Hastert, e-mailed this statement in response to Kirk Fordham's allegations that he informed a senior congressional aide -- Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer -- about Foley's problems with pages.
“This matter has been referred to the Standards Committee and we fully expect that the bipartisan panel will do what it needs to do to investigate this matter and protect the integrity of the House."
And a leadership aide sympathetic to Hastert said that Fordham "is now contradicting his comments" about learning of Foley's behavior recently. Fordham told the AP this morning: "This was someone I had worked for 10 years. I had no inkling that this kind of blatantly reckless — just obscene — behavior was going on behind our backs."