Is there any mention of former AG (now Gov.) Corbett in the Penn State report?

[tularetom]

I have a slightly different take on the Freeh report. It doesn't have anything to do with his condemnation of Spanier, Curley, Paterno, or any of the other worthless POS's that enabled or excused this monster Sandusky to keep raping kids. They deserve all the blame that can be piled on their worthless heads and those who are still alive deserve to be sitting their asses in jail.

But I have yet to hear mention of even the slightest culpability for former Attorney General Tom Corbett, now the governor of PA. From all accounts he was every bit as negligent as those creeps on the PS campus and yet he seems to be avoiding any taint from the scandal.

Was the Freeh report an attempt to confine the damage to the campus itself and more specifically to those who are dead or have resigned or been fired? Was it intended to be a whitewash of Corbett? I only ask this because my recollection is that Freeh's behavior during the Clinton impeachment clusterfuck fell way short of honorable. He seems to be very adept at sucking up to those whome he perceives to be in power particularly if they happen to be right wing republicans.

Maybe I'm reading more into this than there is. But when I saw Freeh up there pontificating about all the assholes who let this scandal occur I noticed that there was one asshole who seemed to be conspicuously omitted from the list.

Has anybody seen the text of the report? How does the report treat Corbett?

[appleannie1]

1. A reporter asked Corbett yesterday why it was that no one worked on the investigation for

3 years after it went to his desk and nothing was done until after his election as Governor. He got really cranked.

[smokeybandit]

2. No mention of Corbett

There is no mention of Corbett in his role as to why he stalled the investigation when he was AG.

But you shouldn't have expected there to be any focus on Corbett. Freeh was hired to target Joe Paterno and the athletic department, not the Board of Trustees.

[truedelphi]

3. This man ws steaming about Corbett over

A year ago on his YouTube site:

Make sure you have the volume down on your speakers, and if you don't want your kids exposed to foul language, don't have them in the room.

Also he brings up McQueary (spelling?)

I still don't know what role he held. He got blame all around for not doing more, but having been in a situation where there was elder abuse occurring, in Marin County and Elder Abuse agency people didn't care, What does a person do? (It turned out later on that the Elder Abuse agency in Marin was only interested in "protecting" those senior citizens who were being abused who had significant property that those heading the agency could sign themselves into owning. So if the elder being abused was being abused by their own rich, professional career children, nothing anyone could do. And maybe the situation is still like that there.

[Spazito]

4. Freeh was tasked with examining the culture, etc, at Penn State, the mandate...

didn't include going beyond the actions of Penn State itself which would preclude any discussion of Corbett's despicable part in this.

I am hoping the continuing investigation ongoing by more than one party will bring to light Corbett's stalling on the investigation when he was Attorney General.

[DURHAM D]

5. How does the report treat Corbett?

This review was not directed at anyone out of the university structure. I guess someone else will need to review Corbett's failure to act - like the voters.

BTW - Once Corbett became Governor he was on the Board of Regents.

IMO - the failure at Penn State started with the 32 member Board. As is common, they had absolutely no idea what the job involves. Actually, Regents don't see it as a job but an honor as the result of big donations, business success, political success or is a legacy of any of the above. They apparently attended board meetings to "listen", not really participate or provide direction or make demands. They were just catchers - no pitching, batting, or fielding required.

[HopeHoops]

6. It's been mentioned regularly in The Patriot-News. Corbett hid the facts for political reasons.