[NYCVirago]

I've seen this reported here three times now, yet nobody explains why he blew the whistle on himself & apologized. Could it be the lying liar felt he really put his foot in it this time and might get squashed like a bug?

I was wondering the same thing. My theory is that somebody at Harvard got wind of what he did and realized that it would embarass the school (as if Al Franken at the staff wasn't enough of an embarrassment to begin with!)

[freedom1st]

Franken added insult to injury by writing his request to Ashcroft on a letterhead from Harvard University's Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, where he was a fellow during the spring term, despite the fact that the school never gave permission for the use of their letterhead and apparently were anything but pleased by having been drawn into Franken's attempted scam.

My question is - Why did Harvard have this idiot as a fellow? If I were a Harvard alum I would be calling for an investigation into why Franken was a fellow and who recruited him to be a fellow.