ABCNEWS.COM: Aide will testify Foley tried to enter page dorm

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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2550501&page=1

Meanwhile, ABC News has learned that one former staffer who worked for the GOP leadership will tell the House Ethics Committee Thursday about an incident several years ago in which he was alerted that an apparently inebriated Foley had tried to gain access to the pages' dormitory.

A source with firsthand knowledge of events says that this coming Thursday, Kirk Fordham — former chief of staff to both Foley and more recently Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y. — will testify that a few years ago he was told by then-House clerk Jeff Trandahl that Foley had been stopped while trying to enter the pages' dorm in an apparently intoxicated state. The source said Fordham will testify that he recalls this being the event that convinced both him and Trandahl to warn Hastert's office, with Fordham designated to have the conversation with Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer. The source said that both aides had been watching Foley's behavior with pages and that Fordham had counseled Foley to watch his behavior.

[napi21]

1. Keep it comming! Drip, drip, drip, drip,every day! n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. I LOVE it!

Hastert is trying to lay ALL of this on Palmer. Has Palmer said whether or not he told Hastert what went down? At the press conference today Hastert insinuated that Palmer would be fired. I'm guessing that's who he was referring to when he said..."If someone had knowledge of this and didn't tell me, they will be fired." (paraphrased) = Palmer is dead meat.

[populistdriven]

3. he lived only 1000 feet away from the dorm - i bet it happened more

[Catherine Vincent]

4. I'll bet the repukes will want proof or else it's just hearsay.

K&R!

[greeneyedboy]

5. can't say i blame them on that. but where there's smoke...

[originalpckelly]

8. Are you kidding me?

If Fordham is full of shit he can be prosecuted for the same crime Scooter is. You cannot lie to the FBI. (Should be a political rhyme.)

[Imagevision]

6. gotta keep hammerin on Foley until the next shoe drops

[Mr_Spock]

7. Why can't they ever take FULL responsibility for anything?

It's going to end up destroying the Repuke party - and I'm really unhappy about that. :rofl:

[K8-EEE]

9. Clinton's Fault!

Obviously....I can't wait to find out how!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Last week I read that there was no record of this with Capitol Police

and I think the same story also said that the Capitol Police provided the security for the page dorm. I think that it's not unheard of for political leaders to ask the police to suppress reports when they could be embarrassing. That in itself would be a cover-up. Kitty Kelly's book on Nancy Reagan mentioned George H.W. Bush's drunken auto accident in which he had a girlfriend in his car while he was Reagan's VP and the fact that the Reagan administration got the police to make the story go away.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. K&R