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 wording of “raunchy” IMs, disclosures about warnings concerning Foley going back five years and the turning of a blind ethical eye by Congress---in short, everything needed for first-class scandal except charges of Satanism. One recommendation might be to restructure all Capitol-level student-work programs to include participants only over the age of consent, whatever that might mean in DC---but upon reflection, maybe that would not exactly solve the problem of “droit de seigneur,” either.