Another witch hunt claim

Hastert claims the Justice Department is just trying to intimidate him by leaking news of an investigation of him. Maybe so, but it sort of sounds like a Tom DeLay excuse to me. After all, this is the REPUBLICAN Justice Department, where only Democrats are considered terrorists and criminals.

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert accused the Justice Department Thursday of trying to intimidate him in retaliation for criticizing the FBI's weekend raid on a congressman's office, escalating a searing battle between the executive and legislative branches of government. "This is one of the leaks that come out to try to, you know, intimidate people," Hastert said on WGN radio Thursday morning. "We're just not going to be intimidated on it."