Posted on 10/11/2006 6:16:10 AM PDT by Mike Bates
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, with his job on the line because of the spiraling Mark Foley cyberspace page sex scandal, was duped Tuesday into letting a stranger into his Plano home -- a serious security breach.
Hastert literally let his guard down and allowed in his house a hustling, self-promoting evangelist little known in this country, the Houston-based K.A. Paul, who at 7:30 a.m. arrived at the speaker's home with a camera-wielding associate.
How Paul and his aide, Dennis Ryan, got to Hastert's door is a tale of apparent chance. How the publicity-hungry Paul and Ryan walked through it was a matter of a "frank discussion" later in the day with the federal security detail assigned to Hastert around the clock.
All top congressional leaders are provided security, with the protective force surrounding Hastert most visible because as speaker, he is the third in line to the presidency.
Hastert was led to believe he was meeting with a supporter. He was surprised to find out otherwise, the Sun-Times has learned. Paul said he asked Hastert to resign. He also said he prayed with the speaker and "laid hands" on him after a 40-minute meeting.
Coincidence led to meeting?
Paul, 43, born a Hindu in India, founded a Christian international ministry called Global Peace Initiatives. In a probe of Paul that ran June 9 in the Houston Press, Paul is called in the magazine article "an egomaniac with a doctored past."
Paul told the Sun-Times he prefers the title "world's most popular" minister.
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STOP!!! Denny is a one of the good guys!! This PAUL creep broke the 2nd Commandment of using God's name in vain. He did't come to help Hastert, he came to BURY Hastert in Jesus' name. SICKENING!!!
Hmm I didn't realize his home was in our area.
A political crackpot with no violent tendencies got to see Hastert. That's America.
I didn't know he held open houses.
They wish! Foley is old news already.
Who was he again? He fell right out of my mind when I saw in the grocery checkout line that Jennifer Anniston's had a boob job.
So I don't think Hastert exercised good judgment.
She did? I'm outta here!
There sure is a Plano. When I was in high school (not Plano),
we used to say "I'm going to Somonauk for a Plano Sandwich."
BFD, what was Hastert to do? Beat the guy in the head?
Whatever, you guys really get into democrat like micromanaging sometimes
You said -- "Hmm I didn't realize his home was in our area."
Yeah, I wondered, too, what Hastert was doing in Texas.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Go figure!
Crowd in front of White House during Andrew Jackson's first inaugural reception in 1829.
" "White and black, frontiersman and farmer and day laborer, thronged the halls which they had never seen before."
Oh, gee, I don't know. Something outrageous like not letting him into his home maybe?
Whatever, you guys really get into democrat like micromanaging sometimes
And which guys are you speaking of?
There is a Plano, IL.
If this clown was banging at your door at 7:30 AM would you let him in?
Maybe it's the only job she was qualified for.
;-)
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