If it raised a “red flag” then why wasn’t anything done. Why? Because the political careers are more important than the safety of innocent pages. Their political careers are more important than anything……. and that’s why I believe Denny boy is about to be thrown to the lions.

By Andrew Taylor
ASSOCIATED PRESS

4:12 p.m. October 2, 2006

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Monday defended his office’s handling of questions raised about Rep. Mark Foley last year, saying the parents of a former male page were concerned about an e-mail Foley sent their son but didn’t want the matter pursued.
Hastert said neither he nor other GOP leaders were aware until last Friday of far more lurid computer exchanges two years earlier between the Florida Republican and another page.

Hastert, R-Ill., acknowledged that Foley’s 2005 e-mail to a Louisiana boy seeking a photograph raised a “red flag” with the Louisiana congressman who sponsored the page, but said his staff aides and Rep. John Shimkus, another Illinois Republican who chairs a board of House members who oversee the page program, did not know the contents.

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