Hastert denies GOP leaders saw e-mails
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Monday that no Republican leaders saw lurid Internet exchanges from former Rep. Mark Foley to pages and that he would have demanded the Florida Republican's expulsion if he had known about them.
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert will resign his congressional seat rather than serve out the rest of his term, two GOP congressional sources told CNN.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert demanded Wednesday that the FBI surrender documents it seized and remove agents involved in the weekend raid of Rep. William Jefferson&#039;s office, under what lawmakers of both parties said were unconstitutional circumstances.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 -- A Republican congressman from California defended his reputation this week, as FBI investigators look into charges that he improperly delayed paying taxes on several lucrative land deals.
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A former aide said that Speaker J. Dennis HastertÂs office knew about reports of Âinappropriate behaviorÂ by Representative Mark Foley far earlier than Mr. HastertÂs office has acknowledged.
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The White House and GOP leaders are standing together in supporting embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert, under fire over the handling of the scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley. A conservative newspaper has called on Hastert, R-Illinois, to step down, but he says that won't be happening.
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(InfoWorld) - A spokesman from the California attorney general's office Friday said that Attorney General Bill Lockyer at this point does not have any evidence to charge Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd with a criminal offense in the ongoing investigation intoÂ HP's probe of journalists and board members. However, Thomas Dressler, a Lockyer spokesman, said that Lockyer and his office are still in the middle of an investigation, so it does not mean Hurd is in the clear yet. "The key words are 'at this point,'" he said Friday. "We're not ruling anyone out in terms of criminal culpability. We have much more work to do, many more documents to review, more people to interview." The probe could have serious consequences for HP as evidence continues to surface that investigators not only used pretexting -- or obtaining phone records under false pretenses -- but also physical surveillance and e-mail tracking software that was placed on at least one target's computer without her knowledge to gather information. HP has acknowledged that it undertook an investigation of employees, board members and journalists, in an attempt to find out who on the HP board was leaking information. A report in The Washington Post Thursday cited e-mail that indicated Hurd knew about details of the investigation, and HP's share price began falling after reports that suggested he approved elaborate spying tactics to obtain reporter information. Patricia Dunn, HP's chairman, already has agreed toÂ step aside as chairman in January in the wake of the scandal, and two others also have resigned from the board. Hurd will take over as chairman of the board when Dunn leaves, though she will remain on the board. Hurd is expected to speak publicly for the first time about the scandal in a press conference at 4:05 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. According to HP spokeswoman Emma Wischhusen, Hurd will not field reporter questions, but will make only prepared comments. A representative from a law firm representing HP, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, also will speak at the press conference. Â
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A congressional Democratic leader says he's being ignored in requests for more information about the reported disappearance of messages exchanged by the likes of Karl Rove.
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By CHARLES BABINGTON WASHINGTON - E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday.
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The top Republican in the U.S. House of  Representatives, Dennis Hastert, will meet reporters at 1 p.m.  (1700 GMT) as he faces calls for his resignation over the  handling of a sex scandal involving a fellow Republican  Congressman who resigned.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. legislators signalled Thursday that they will hold Hewlett-Packard's feet to the fire during House testimony on the company'sÂ pretexting scandal, while former General Counsel Ann Baskins formally declined to answer any questions by invoking her Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination. BaskinsÂ resigned her positionÂ Thursday, effective immediately. Subsequent witnesses including outside investigator Ronald DeLia, of the investigation firm Security Outsourcing Solutions, were also refusing to testify at press time based on their Fifth Amendment rights. HP's use of detectives whoÂ obtained people's telephone recordsÂ under false pretenses while investigating press leaks from its board will be in the spotlight. The matter caught the attention of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, some of whose members have been activelyÂ promoting legislationÂ that would explicitly criminalize tactics such as those used in the HP investigation. The actions taken by HP were "not the act of one rogue employee," said Representative Jay Inslee of Washington state, indicating that at least some of the politicians might not accept the characterization of the events at HP that its chief is set to offer before the subcommittee. In a written version of his testimony made available earlier, President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd called the scandal the result of aÂ "rogue investigation." Inslee and Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee have co-authored legislation that would prohibit the obtaining of customer information from telecommunications carriers by false pretenses, and the sale or disclosure of such records obtained by false pretenses. In her opening remarks Blackburn, a Republican, called pretexting a purposeful effort to deceive and defraud in order to get information one is not entitled to have. "How prevalent is it in the corporate boardroom?" she asked. Criminalization of pretexting needs to extend to all forms of telecommunications, said Representative Tammy Baldwin, Democrat of Wisconsin, adding that legislation must address records ranging from conventional telecom through mobile and Internet telephony. She called for a "comprehensive legislative approach" to cover all sectors where pretexting could occur.
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E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House aides with Republican Party accounts, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee reported Monday.
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The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, will meet reporters at 1 p.m. (1700 GMT) as he faces calls for his resignation over the handling of a sex scandal involving a fellow Republican Congressman who resigned.
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Remarks by The House Speaker Dennis Hastert, as Prepared for Delivery at the 2004 Republican National Convention Monday:
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House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House member said yesterday -- contradicting the speaker's assertions that he learned of concerns about Foley only last week.
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Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said he told Speaker Dennis Hastert after learning a fellow GOP lawmaker sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy.
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House Republican leaders faced growing pressure over a congressional sex scandal on Tuesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert rejecting calls to step down amid Republican fears about the potential fallout in November's fight for control of Congress.