Speaker Hastert from this afternoon’s Q&A on whether he thought the Shimkus/Trandahl investigation was adequate …
Q Mr. Speaker, on that question, I mean is it sufficient that they just went and asked Foley, hey, we have
this e-mail that has set off some worries with the parents, is this a problem or not? And he says no. So should it have stopped there?Mr. Hastert. Well, let me say this, and again I want to refer you to the report, but what I want to say is that
the parents didn’t want to — I mean, first of all, there was nothing explicit in this e-mail that I understood. And the parents didn’t even want — I don’t even know if they showed the e-mail — actual e-mail to Mr. Shimkus. I don’t know. But his parents were protective of this thing, and what they wanted was Mr. Foley, and my understanding was, Mr. Foley to stop contacting their son. I think that is what the purpose of it was and I think the reports that I got back recently is that is what happened.
Back to the excuse about the parents’ privacy, right?
