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To: PROLIFE who wrote (751049)	10/4/2006 12:09:29 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It works both ways, Pro....How in the world did Fox News get that "exclusive" twenty-nine year old video of John Murtha and Abscam? Cooincidence? Maybe...but probably about politics. Why would it surface now? And on Fox, of all places? LOL....don't pretend the republicans are any more principled when it comes to election tactics.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (751049)	10/4/2006 2:04:05 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 769670

Blunt weighs in..... ___________ Congressman questions what Hastert knew By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago news.yahoo.com. A senior House Republican said Wednesday that Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s inappropriate e-mails to a page — now at the center of an intensifying federal investigation — should have been thoroughly pursued at the time. As conservatives debated whether House Speaker Dennis Hastert should resign over his handling of the complaint, the House majority whip, Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said he would have handled it differently if he'd known about it. He was the acting majority leader when the complaint was raised. Although he did not criticize Hastert, his remarks to reporters in Springfield, Ill., were no endorsement of the speaker's actions. "I think I could have given some good advice here, which is you have to be curious, you have to ask all the questions you can think of," Blunt said. "You absolutely can't decide not to look into activities because one individual's parents don't want you to." On the federal investigation into Foley's communications with teenagers in the congressional page program, acting U.S. Attorney Jeff Taylor for the District of Columbia told Hill officials to "preserve all records" related to the matter, according to a Justice Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Taylor's three-page letter, dated Tuesday, was sent to House counsel Geraldine Gennet, according to the Justice official. Such letters often are followed by search warrants and subpoenas, and Taylor's request signals that investigators are moving past initial assessments and closer to a criminal investigation. Rep. Rodney Alexander (news, bio, voting record), R-La., the congressman who sponsored the page at the heart of the furor, said Hastert "knew about the e-mails that we knew about," including one in which Foley asked the page to send his picture. But he quickly backed off that comment, saying he discussed the e-mails with Hastert's aides, not the speaker himself. "I guess that's a poor choice of words that I made there," he told AP.