Glenn Greenwald: Various Foley scandal items

Several matters relating to the Foley cover-up scandal:

(1) My post on the letter sent by Denny Hastert to the DOJ is below.

(2) I need to clarify and correct something I wrote the day after the scandal was first disclosed (Saturday). In this post, I argued that the "pedophile" rhetoric being righteously hurled at Mark Foley was not really appropriate, given that many (if not most) Americans live in states where it is perfectly legal for an adult of any age to have sex with a 16-year-old. The notion that an adult who has sex with a 16-year-old is a "pedophile freak" who deserves to be imprisoned with the key thrown away is (independent of whether it's right or wrong) inconsistent with the values enshrined in the laws of many (if not most) states, which provide that 16-year-olds are capable of consenting to sex (and even getting married).