Huh? I haven't heard one R defending Foley.
It would be as if I wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War and, to support my most controversial points, added footnotes that stated A manuscript in the Vatican, or Private letter to author from anonymous Greek shepherd attesting a stone altar in his field
And then he follows up his complaints about Woodward making unsupported allegations against Rumsfeld with his own unsupported allegations against Republicans.
I think Hanson must have skimmed the news. I believe he has confused "defending Foley" with "defending Hastert".
This column was far from a home run. It was a long fly ball that went foul at the last moment.