At NR, we are not defending how Republicans have handled the Foley matter (this is our latest editorial), but I don’t get how Tony Blankley in his column today seems to think that Dennis Hastert was single-handedly behind the failure, engineering a cover-up:

But the fact that, according to my best sources in the House Republicans, Mr. Hastert never informed any Democrats of the matter (even on the page oversight board), unambiguously suggests that he knew what was up. Thus began the cover-up. Of course he knew what the Democrats would do with the information. But not only is this not a Democratic Party dirty trick (the facts are real, not made up), but Mr. Hastert had a moral duty to do all in his power to make sure there would not be more victims of Mr. Foley’s alleged sexual predation — or clear potential for such.

Hastert seems to have been more out-of-the-loop than a malevolent master-mind here.