Alleged sex abuse victim may testify at Hastert sentencing

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Alleged sex abuse victim may testify at Hastert sentencing
Mar 23, 5:05 PM EDT
By MICHAEL TARM
Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) -- An alleged sex abuse victim could testify next month at former U.S. Speaker Dennis Hastert's sentencing in a hush-money case, according to a federal court transcript.

It's the first time that the court has referenced sex abuse in the case.

Hastert, 74, pleaded guilty in October to violating bank laws in seeking to pay $3.5 million in hush money to someone referred to in the indictment only as "Individual A." The Associated Press and other media outlets, citing anonymous sources, have reported that Hastert wanted to hide claims that he sexually molested someone, but the issue never arose in court or in unsealed filings.

The transcript, provided Wednesday to the AP by the presiding judge's court reporter, recounts an unannounced hearing held earlier this week in which prosecutors, the defense and the judge discuss "Individual D."

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DENNIS_HASTERT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-03-23-17-05-25

[forest444]

1. "Clinton should be impeached" an Orange County twit told me at the time. "He's a degenerate!"

The stupid oaf told me that the very day Dennis the menace was named Speaker.

Qué será.

[FarPoint]

2. What are you trying to say exactly?

Clarification request.

[forest444]

3. It was in reference to the supreme irony of seeing Republcans foam at the mouth at Clinton's follies

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At the very moment their party was foisting on the country a runaway pedophile as its Speaker of the House - and a homosexual one at that (which is doubly ironic, given how hysterical they are about that).

Yet another very compelling reason for strengthening the separation between church and state, because people who are that brainwashed by their churches should be kept as far away from the state as possible.

[byronius]

5. Supreme irony indeed.

I remember Newt's indignancy over Bill and Monica, and the later revelation that he was having an affair at the exact same time.

Shameless finger-pointing while secretly committing the exact same act has always been a characteristic of the conservative racket.

[forest444]

7. Well said. And here's the kicker:

I later heard a number of the same people say they wouldn't vote for Gore "because Clinton's a degenerate."

"Gore had nothing to do with it," I'd point out. "No one ever claimed it was a threesome."

[byronius]

11. I wish elected officials could have private lives.

I never wanted to know anything about Bill's (or George's, or Ronald's) sex life. I truly don't care. Competence. Always competence. Only competence.

If it had been illegal -- harassment, or coercion -- fine. Fair game. But holding these people to some impossible superhuman (read: Obamalike) status only encourages their darker impulses to thrive, usually in some unhealthy way. Sort of like what the Nicean Council did for the private lives of priests.

[forest444]

12. Hear, hear.

In Western Europe, voters generally judge their lawmakers by the results, not by innuendo. Why exactly that's not the case here, I'm not sure.

We are just as educated as they are, in terms of average years of schooling. Why, then, do so many of our fellow Americans (yes, GOP, this means you) think like backwoods yokels from the 14th century? Brainwashing? The church? Something in the water?

[byronius]

13. I've heard it argued that it's because we did not lose two generations to war.

Our casualties in WWI and WW2 were an order of magnitude less than France, Germany, or England. Germany especially -- all of their most primal alpha males vanished in the smoke, and now they're counted the least racist nation in Europe.

Ours mostly came home, or stayed home. And now we carry their heavy weight into the future, step by step, while they and their descendants continually try to fulfill some genetic urging to destroy the species and the world.

So far, they've not been that successful. But they're always trying. Everyday.

[forest444]

14. The no pain, no gain theory.

There might be something to that.

[Judi Lynn]

4. OMG. Right after Bob Livingston left when he was outed for having an extramarital affair, himself.

So comical, wasn't it? He had the gall to get all sniffy, pretending he was still more moral than Clinton, since he was leaving after he was outed, and suggested Clinton should be a moral man and follow his example.

Henry Hyde, Mr. "Youthful Indiscretions" during affairs with a married woman whose husband begged Henry to quit destroying his family, got good and pompous before he would finally drag his ass away.

Your acquaintance in OC should just love this news about Dennis, if he/she loves to see sinners punished. Oh, wait. Dennis and the others are Republicans.

Their rigidity makes them especially weak.

[forest444]

8. Ah, what memories!

My favorite was Henry "big love" Hyde, who kept a secret family in Florida since at least 1969 - and did so at the GOP's and the taxpayer's expense..

Henry Hyde. A man of Republican family values (and one of the real villains of the Iran-Contra hearings, you might remember).

[sofa king]

9. He described his affair as "a youthful indiscretion."

Hyde was 41 when he started it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/hyde091798.htm

[8 track mind]

6. someplace in dimensions unknown to us, Bartcop is laughing his ass off.

He had very few good things to say about Dennis" the sweaty wrestler" hassert

[sofa king]

10. Still waiting for the Turkish shoe to drop....

It's now apparent that Turkey was using a carrot-and-stick approach to bribing Hastert. Sibel Edmonds claimed Hastert's price for pulling an Armenian genocide resolution was $500000, but that may have just been the reward side of the deal, with this ugly disclosure being the stick.

This trial may be part of that bullshit soft-shoe tactic of busting traitors for crimes other than treason and espionage (see Scooter Libby), so that "the public interest is still served," as Fitz put it. But of course the public interest wasn't served then and it won't be now.

http://www.democracynow.org/2005/8/10/did_speaker_hastert_accept_turkish_bribes

I say that if you want politicians to stop being traitors (in wartime, I would remind everyone), you oughta burn their lives to the goddamned ground and brand them as the traitors they are. Hastert isn't even getting the full first part, much less the second.