WTF did Hastert mean....

[Brundle_Fly]

When he said "The Family Got What it wanted"

Re: The Page's Family.

It's been driving me nuts since I heard it last night on CNN in his sit down interview. No one is discussing what it could have meant or even mentioning it sounding odd. I have seen the interview three times now, it was said, what does it mean?

:argh:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. it's garbled, but hearing neospeak from bro-in law and sis, he means

they were too embarrassed by the event, so they did not want to proceed. Also, their interests are in line with the GOP's family values strategy of blaming Clinton. Ergo, they family got what it wanted.

[Brundle_Fly]

2. I don't think so...

I think it sounds like they got paid off, or received something in turn

[nosillies]

3. It probably refers to Alexander's saying that the family of the page

requested that charges not be pressed/the investigation not be furthered after some of the initial correspondence was brought to Alexander's attention.

[Brundle_Fly]

4. so the family got what it wanted

by not punishing the man who was ubér creepy to their son?

[nosillies]

6. Yes that's what he meant. They wanted no punishment, just for the

communication to stop.

edit typo

[Marnieworld]

5. According to him the family wanted Foley to stop contacting their kid

That was all, according to Hastert, he was required to do. The spin is, family complained, just wanted it to stop, they told him to stop, he stopped, case closed, nothing more needed to do.

Of course the next logical question is why is that the only responsibility that you had- to satisfy the family? Did you read the emails? Did you request copies? Was there any further investigation? Why wasn't he told to stay away from all pages at that point? Why would you risk the safety of pages by assuming that it was an isolated incident without much gravity? How could you conclude this without any sort of inquiry? How could you let someone responsible for protecting children from online predators remain in that position after this accusation?

Nope, all he needed to do was please these total strangers. Stop writing their son. Problem solved. Bullshit!

[KKKarl is an idiot]

9. More questions than answers..

That could only mean one thing. We may see Hasert resign in the next fews weeks.

[MattP]

7. Ross

Does anybody remember when Hastert said Brian Ross was full of it when he said Hastert was under investigation for bribes?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. I don't know, but I know it wasn't for their son to be harassed...

by some cowardly republicans, but that's what their getting.

My take when I heard him say that was they wanted the sexual correspondence with their son stopped.