Hastert Appears To Be Finished As Speaker Of The House

From the AP (via TPM Muckraker):

A senior congressional aide said Wednesday he told House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office in 2004 about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage pages -- the earliest known alert to the GOP leadership.

Kirk Fordham told The Associated Press that when he was told about Foley's inappropriate behavior toward pages, he had "more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene."

The conversations took place long before the e-mail scandal broke, Fordham said, and at least a year earlier than members of the House GOP leadership have acknowledged.

I don't see how Hastert will be able to survive this, particular given that Fordham also says he's going to the FBI with everything he knows. I guess Hastert can claim that his own aides kept him in the dark on all this. Good luck with that, Denny.