You know, he is a former US Senator and a former Governor of Oklahoma. He's a Democrat, so I instinctively distrust him. That said, I think he is rightly respected for all the good things he has done for OU in the past ten years. In this case, he seems trapped by the always harmful "see no evil" approach. It is simply better to say "we don't know" than to insist on something that can later be shown to be untrue. There's a difference between reassurance through strength, and reassurance through baseless assertion.
I hope it was a lone, sad person, but something just stinks about the whole thing right now.
Don't forget he was the one that recommended George Tenent to stay on at CIA. That keeps popping up in my mind since last night.