What might come in handy now would be an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the rapidly exfoliating Foley story. (Neither Glenn Greenwald’s flame-throwing indictment in “Unclaimed Territory,” nor Walter Shapiro’s more tempered consideration of the fiasco’s effect on the elections, are quite the dispassionate discussion of events and repercussions that must exist somewhere.) E&P’s ably-researched and -sourced E&P story does a fine job of mimicking, in its structure, the downward spiral of the revelations about Dennis Hastert’s inaction on the matter. But in the five days since this article appeared, there have been a confession of childhood abuse by clergy, a desperate “mea culpa” via claims of alcoholism, the precise ... More »

Grammatical error in the first sentence, but well written otherwise. Good, up-to-date overview of this story.

Good follow-up reporting by E&P on the emerging story of how the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has gone into a seeming panic of the handling of information about the nefarious activities of former Representative Mark Foley of Florida. Well-sourced overview of how this story has emerged and some responses to the actions of those involved.