Analysis: What did GOP know about Foley? (with a Watergate twist)

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Analysis: What did GOP know about Foley?

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - In a twist on the old Watergate question, the Republican Party is struggling to answer: What did GOP leaders know of a congressman's salacious exchanges with underage male pages and when did they know it?

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Now, the Republican Party — already facing an unfriendly political environment and the fallout from a new book critical of President Bush's handling of the Iraq war — finds itself knocked even further off message and working to contain the political damage.

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However, Hastert's staff and some Republicans in leadership, including Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., the chairman of the House campaign effort, for months had been aware of an inappropriate 2005 e-mail exchange between Foley and a Louisiana teen. Reynolds said he also told Hastert, but the speaker said he doesn't recall the conversation. Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, also has known since the spring that Foley had contacted the teen, but a spokesman said the leader didn't know details of the contact.

GOP leaders are facing questions of a cover-up while Democrats across the country seize on the scandal, demanding an independent investigation and calling for some Republicans to resign their leadership posts.

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