Some of us are old enough to recall how the Watergate investigation of a minor break in at the Democratic Party offices in Washington D. C. slowly expanded and moved up the ladder of government until then president Richard Nixon faced impeachment and resigned his office.
There was little if any evidence that Nixon himself authorized the break in. Rather, he was hounded from office because he obstructed justice by endeavoring to cover up what took place over a period of time.
The question eventually boiled down to ‘What did he know, when did he know , and what did he do about it?’
No reporter was bold enough to ask the president that question in the months following the break-in. Nor has anyone to our knowledge posed the same questions to Governor Tom Corbett concerning the Coach Jerry Sandusky / Penn State scandal and the apparent 2005 murder of then Center County district attorney Ray Gricar.
Corbett would have us believe the matter only came to his attention in 2009. He had been elected attorney general in 2004 and had served a two year appointed term during the mid-1990s. It stretches credulity that local authorities knew of the sex scandals and yet news of such an extraordinary matter pertaining to the Penn State football coaching staff and the institution itself would not have reached Corbett at least by 2005. Yet there was no state investigation. Why not?
As more and more attention is being drawn to the situation, the wheels of justice are slowly turning.
Our instinct and conjecture? This will turn out to be Pennsylvania’s ‘Watergate’ and Corbett may not get to finish his first term in office.
