Democrats Slap GOP For Keeping E-Mails Secret

By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats demanded on Sunday that House Republicans keep them in the loop and thoroughly investigate former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a 16-year-old boy. The White House went further, suggesting the need for a criminal probe.

"This should be investigated objectively. I think the Democratic leadership should have been told 10 months ago," said Rep. Jane Harman of California, top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. "I gather that basically nothing was done except that Foley was warned."

Foley, R-Fla., quit Congress on Friday after the disclosure of the e-mails he sent to a former congressional page in the House, and the sexually suggestive instant messages that the five-term congressman from West Palm Beach sent to other high school pages.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., maintained at first that he had learned only last week about the e-mails. Hastert acknowledged over the weekend that his aides had, in fact, referred the matter to the House clerk and to the congressman who was chairman of the board that oversees the page program.

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I think the Dems should have demanded that the investigation be handed over to a bipartisan group or the Dems....if the leadership of the GOP was involved in covering up and neglecting this issue....how can they be trusted to perform a thorough investigation of themselves...?

"I gather that basically nothing was done except that Foley was warned."
All they did was warn him to COVER HIS TRACKS and lay low for a while.