Hastert Fights Back

The ABC News report that places House Speaker Dennis Hastert “in the mix” of a federal corruption probe reached a fever pitch when Hastert called the story “absolutely” wrong and is now demanding a retraction. ABC’s Brian Ross told the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz: “I think our story is accurate. We’ve gone back to our sources, and they believe what we reported was accurate as they knew it. There seems to be some disconnect between what the congressman thinks, what the Justice Department thinks and what the FBI thinks.