"What could those documents have said that drove Mr. Berger to remove them without authorization from a secure reading room for classified documents?""What information could be so embarrassing that a man with decades of experience in handling classified documents would risk being caught pilfering our nation's most sensitive secrets?"
IMHO, Hastert would NEVER ask these questions UNLESS he already knows the answers.
IOW, I would interpret this to mean Hastert knows the answers to those questions, and he's leaving bread crumbs for the media to find their way to the "jackpot."
I think the Clinton "Legacy Brigade" will have a diffult, if not impossible task to spin their way out of this one.
You bet Hastert knows what the answers are. He is rewarded by the White House which is allowing him to be the front man on this for the Republicans because of the great job he has done pushing the President's agenda. Meanwhile the senators are stuck sounding like mush-mouthed weaklings on this huge story.