December 1-3, 2006 -- WMR's Capitol Hill sources report that a combination of GOP members of Congress, their senior staffs, and pro-GOP lobbyists have cooperated to cover up the scandal known as "PageGate." Although the story about former Rep. Mark Foley's on-line dalliances with underage male pages engulfed a number of other senior GOP House leaders, including the office of Speaker Dennis Hastert, and was the subject of a House Ethics Committee inquiry, an FBI investigation, and a Florida law enforcement probe, the support given by GOP lobbyists to legal defense funds for key staffers, in order to defray legal expenses, has resulted in a mutual cover-up of major proportions. The cover-up could not have been possible without the assistance of a number of Washington mainstream journalists, according to our Hill sources. Some of the journalists were worried that their own involvement with the GOP perpetrators may have become known in a thorough investigation and had every reason to help tamp down the scandal.