I don't understand selectively enforcing the law against one illegal activity while millions of illegals get Amnesty for using a false Social Security number, failing to report income to the IRS, failing to pay taxes or over-staying a visa.

These are major criminal offenses!
Why have the rule of law at all with the Senate Amnesty bill. If millions of illegals are to get Amnesty Jefferson and Hastert should too. We can give have Amnesty for everyone!

Word has it that ABC news will be making the arrest of Dennis Hastert and he will be prosicuted by a team including Osama Bin Laden and Ward Churchill.

When did Dan Rather go to work for ABC? I'm very dissapointed with you guys.

So if Hastert wants us to connect the dots re: the timing of him having a conflict with the FBI and a Justice Department leak -- why is he so upset when people connect the dots between the Abramoff fund raiser and his support for Abramoff's clients?

Oh yeah -- it's the same as not minding when the Executive Branch trounces the rights of ordinary citizens, but getting all in a twist when they catch a Congressman taking bribes, with cash in his freezer, and decide to search his office.

Uh-huh. Now it all makes sense.

I don't watch network TV. I don't dislike you, but you all go to the same cocktail parties, and you seem to be hard-core liberal elitists. If Hastert is NOT the target, and if he does not end up in jail, then once again, you guys lose. You will keep losing money until you become fair and balanced.

Stop lying to help Democrats!

Why don't you people at ABC give it a break and quit making up stuff you know isn't true!

"Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out."

The Hastert story by ABC is another example of how the term "mainstream media bias" became a household term and I know longer watch the big 3. It's shameful!!!

Someone at WNT needs to read the book "Without Reservation" by Jeff Benedict,"how a controversial Indian tribe rose to power and built the world's largest casino",has to do with Foxwoods in Ct.

It was just a coincidence when I wrote a check to a car dealer and he gave me the keys to a car.

Ross is right to report this. And those of you who invoke the Rather-gate issue, etc, are only trying to put up a straw man, which, by the way, no longer works. Nor does the swift-boating. The RNC needs a new tactic. Like quitting.

I find this interesting:

Speaker Hastert: "Well, you know, first of all, what we want to do is not protect people that broke the law..."

Um, isn't Hastert the one who enabled DeLay to stay in power AFTER he was indicted -- the DeLay Rule, I think it was called?

Dale, you should stop let GOP talking points dictate which networks you watch and use your own brain. There are plenty of facts in ABCs report to substantiate their claims. You watch Fox News parrot GOP talking points and then you come on here parroting the same junk about the liberal media (which anyone with a brain knows is a myth) and you want to be taken seriously? The media is doing a great job of revealing the facts about corrupt GOP corruption, and that is not going to change no matter how many parrots Fox News (aka the RNC) can recruit to do their bidding. Hats off to ABC for helping us all see how corrupt the GOP is.

"There are plenty of facts in ABCs report to substantiate their claims."

I can only find claims. Please name one of the facts that substantiates the claim that he is being investigated or is in the mix. Hint: If it came from an annonymous source, it's a claim.

Ron- always glad to help.

Fact -"the FBI has been looking into a letter Hastert and others sent to the Secretary of the Interior urging her to block an Indian casino that would have competed with casinos represented by Abramoff."

How do we know this is fact? Hastert has admitted to the letter. The FBI has also confirmed they have looked into this, not to mention why else is Hastert now shifting to cry the FBI is just out for payback? Whis is this coming from Hastert's camp if they did not have a factual basis to believe the FBI was the source of ABCs report?

Fact- "a few days before the letter was sent, Abramoff hosted a fundraiser for Hastert at a restaurant he owned."

How do we know this is a fact? Hastert has acknowledged being present at said fundraiser for criminal Abramoff.

This right there is enough to put Hastert into the mix of the investigation which is what ABC initially reported. Hastert is free to sob about his innocence and claim it was all a gigantic coincidence, but that does not change the facts above, nor does it make ABC guilty of some evil media bias wrong doing that GOP parrots are claiming.

The following is a claim.

ABC News, citing "high-level official sources," reported that the FBI is investigating a letter Hastert wrote three years ago urging then-Interior Secretary Gale Norton to block an Indian casino that would have competed with casinos operated by other tribes, which were represented by Abramoff. (CNN)

The fact is that the FBI has not confirmed this, as you stated. In fact, they denied it.

"With regard to reports suggesting that the speaker of the House is under investigation or 'in the mix,' as stated by ABC News, I reconfirm, as stated by the Department earlier this evening, that these reports are untrue." (Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty)

Hours after that, ABC News wrote, "Whether they like it or not, members of Congress, including Hastert, are under investigation," one federal official said tonight."

Don't use one claim from an annonymous source to back up another claim from an annonymous source. It was a slick attempt, though. I'll give ya that.

"The FBI has also confirmed they have looked into this" - Jason

No they haven't. The only mention of that being "confirmed" is by "an official".

Maybe your "facts" add up to a reason why you believe Hastert should be investigated, but it's not proof of anything except that you use claims from annonymous sources to back up claims from annonymous sources.

why is the word "write" misspelled (right) UGH!

Hastert took $69K from Jack Abramoff - what kind of an idiot would you have to be to believe that no one's looking into that?

Sorry Denny, people who think about this for a grand total of two seconds knows for a fact you're being investigated.

This door was opened concerning Abramoff when the Republicans elected Tom Delay as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Well not only Republicans but Democrats also are caught up in the schemes of influence peddling. If memory is right that's why the Dems lost control in the first place. Why do you think the fuss is about search warrants for Congressional offices?