Prometheus 6

Oh, I thought I was done with Hastert and Foley, but that one word...

Former Clerk Tells Panel He Alerted Speaker’s Office to Foley Concerns
By JEFF ZELENY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — Jeff Trandahl, the former House clerk who supervised the Congressional page program, testified Thursday before the House ethics committee that he had periodically advised senior Republican leadership aides of complaints about Representative Mark Foley’s behavior on Capitol Hill.

Mr. Trandahl, whose account is seen by investigators as crucial to determining whether Speaker J. Dennis Hastert knew about Mr. Foley’s conduct, took questions for four hours in a closed session. He declined to comment as he left the Capitol, but people familiar with his testimony said Mr. Trandahl recounted how he informed the speaker’s office about concerns that Mr. Foley was spending too much time with young pages.