Hastert calls in the (Ex) Feds

The Guradian, based on an AP report says House Speaker Dennis Hastert will take responsibility for the unfolding Foley / page sex scandal and insists he will stay on as leader of House Republicans.

Hastert will ask former FBI director Louis Freeh to examine the page system and make recommendations on how to improve a program almost as old as the Congress itself.

That's the Louis Freeh who took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to criticise the 9/11 commission - criticism not yet answered .. or even addressed.

An Incomplete Investigation
Why did the 9/11 Commission ignore "Able Danger"?

BY LOUIS FREEH
Thursday, November 17, 2005

It was interesting to hear from the 9/11 Commission again on Tuesday. This self-perpetuating and privately funded group of lobbyists and lawyers has recently opined on hurricanes, nuclear weapons, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and even the New York subway system. Now it offers yet another "report card" on the progress of the FBI and CIA in the war against terrorism, along with its "back-seat" take and some further unsolicited narrative about how things ought to be on the "front lines."

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The 9/11 Commission gets an "I" grade--incomplete--for its dereliction regarding Able Danger. The Joint Intelligence Committees should reconvene and, in addition to Able Danger team members, we should have the 9/11 commissioners appear as witnesses so the families can hear their explanation why this doesn't matter.

An interesting choice, no doubt his Clintonan era credentials will help to assuage the Democrat fury.