[goodwithagun]

According to a local sports talk show host (who actually broke this story six months ago), this goes way up. Think about it, a DA disappeared along with his computer's hard drive. He was just recently declared legally dead even though a body has never been discovered. What was McQueary threatened with? If these monsters can make a DA disappear, what can they do to others? It's still not right, I know, I'm just throwing this frightening idea out there.

[Gottfried]

Popular ‘culture’ in the USA is and has been toxic waste for many years. TV adds for Viagra and Trojan vibrators on family channels in prime time? Dressing up baby girls as sluts for that Tots and Tairas obscenity? Ads for jeans featuring ‘sexy’ children? Pro sports, apparently, is Tots and Tiaras for homosexuals.

And also, all those very persistent rumors of underage sex rings in the highest reaches of the US and Brit governments - remember the age-old senate page thing that was suddenly cancelled a few years ago after a short and briefly reported sex scandal?

I also thought about that disappeared DA and along the same lines. This very likely goes very high up, and it's amazing these days how frequently the right people wind up convieniently dead. Rotten to the core.

[hellbender]

I agree that simply losing his job was not the only problem McQueary might have had if he had gone outside PSU channels with his report. Sandusky, a popular, nationally-known, powerful person far outranking McQ, knew that McQ saw him, so the source of any "anonymous" report would have been obvious. Anyone familiar with whistleblower cases (like the famous Serpico affair) would know that McQ took a risk by doing anything at all. And he did do something.

By going to Paterno, McQ hoped that someone with even more power than Sandusky would take action. It's not McQ's fault that the PSU bureaucrats did not act.

[hellbender]

According to a local sports talk show host (who actually broke this story six months ago), this goes way up.

We do know that the board of directors of the Second Mile includes many wealthy and powerful people. If the whole truth came out, they could be sued for millions. So there were a lot of people who had an interest in covering up.

Incidentally, if some of those people were willing to snuff out a DA and make his body disappear (which seems possible), it would be easy for them to get into the DA's home and plant those searches about "cleansing" hard drives. Covert breakins are child's play to rich people and the PIs they can afford to hire. I speak from experience.

[angcat]

I wonder if Rendell is involved.