WILKES-BARRE TIMES LEADER / AP: …Eric Barron told The Associated Press that the report by former FBI director Louis Freeh took a prosecutorial approach and created an “absurd” and “unwarranted” picture of students, faculty and others associated with the university.
“I have to say, I’m not a fan of the report,” Barron said during a half-hour interview in his office in Old Main, the school’s administrative headquarters. “There’s no doubt in my mind, Freeh steered everything as if he were a prosecutor trying to convince a court to take the case.”
The Freeh report concluded that former administrators Graham Spanier, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, and former football coach Joe Paterno intentionally concealed key facts about Sandusky’s abuse to avoid bad publicity after receiving complaints in 1998 and 2001. It also recommended more than 100 changes to school policies and procedures and said Penn State was permeated by a culture of reverence for the football program…. (more)
EDITOR: As NewsLanc opined at the time, cohorts of then Gov. Tom Corbett chose and directed Free as an attempt to deflect blame on Corbett for failure to promptly prosecute Jerry Sandusky and then for firing beloved coach Joe Paterno.
So when will the charges be dropped against the Penn State officials so an end can be put to this sorry tale?
