You mean blame-making mandate. Why don't you ask him or read his report and find out the answer to your question.
I do apologize to Freeh on that point as I see in his report that a request for an interview was made of Dr Jack Raykovitz, child psychologist and Executive Director of the Second Mile who was promptly notified of Sandusky's 2001 indiscretion -- but Freeh's request was refused. I can understand why he doesn't want to talk, can't you???
But then again Joe Paterno requested that Freeh interview him before he died and Freeh refused.
I also note that atleast three times in the Freeh Report the administrators meet, make notes and send e-mails to each other about contacting the Department of Public Welfare.
Strange -- bringing in the DPW is certainly not standard "cover-up" modus operandi, wouldn't you say??? I wonder if they did contact them and what they said as it seems clear that the DPW was on their list of to dos.
But Freeh fails to follow-up on this notation and just passes right over it and hopes everyone else will as well.
The three things on the to do lists in the Freeh Report are contacting: 1]Sandusky 2]The Second Mile 3] Department of Public Welfare. The administrators followed through with 1] and 2] as Freeh documents, but nowhere does Freeh tell us what happened to number 3]Department of Public Welfare. Wouldn't that contact be important???
Ehhh -- that was probably outside of his mandate as well, right???
The Freeh Report has been sold to the world as some great, all-inclusive, all-knowing, absolutely thorough document
that must be accepted as ending all arguments relating to Penn State’s football program. IT IS NOT ANY OF THAT.
As a very experienced legal researcher and writer myself, I would give the Freeh Report nothing better than a C.
It is NOT any great masterpiece. The Freeh Report is the farthest thing from a proper investigation in which the
affected parties are given the opportunity to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses, and present exculpatory
evidence on their own behalf.
Many things are said six or seven times in the Freeh Report; and it is redundant to the 2,000th degree. If all the repetition was removed, the 267 page Freeh Report would be down to about 100 pages. As a very experienced law
professor, you would NOT give that document a high grade.
It is unforgivable that the Freeh Report gives us nothing about any interviews with Joe Paterno’s office secretary
and office staff members. Paterno’s secretary would know almost everything that Joe did during the last ten years.
How could a witness as important as she is be omitted entirely from the Freeh Report?
It is even worse that the Freeh Report makes no mention of Vicky Triponey, the woman who stood up to Joe Paterno
on matters of discipline of football players. She got fired and ostracized from Penn State because she stood up to
Joe Paterno.
Joe Paterno was exposed for having managed the Penn State football program as “His Own Kingdom” for many,
many years. I don’t have any problem accepting all the penalties imposed against Penn State EXCEPT the $60
million fine. I really doubt that the NCAA Constitution and By-Laws grant the NCAA the power to levy onerous
fines of $60 million against any of its member institutions.
Could the NCAA levy a $60 million fine against Sul Ross State or Drake University?