The Freeh "DistortFrom the new book The Freeh Distort: A Disgrace to American Justice available at Amazon.com.
How the rush to judgment over unsubstantiated, biased, and deliberately slanted assumptions, has unfairly tarnished one of the nation’s finest universities, and Joe Paterno, the greatest coach in college football history.
If the “Freeh Report” had instead been submitted as a Law
School term paper, it is hard to imagine how it could have risen to the level
of D Minus under the most lenient of grading systems. Its “conclusions” were
based upon nothing more than arbitrarily crafted assumptions, that have no
basis in fact regarding evidence to support them.
Many people immediately realized there was something
wrong with the “Freeh Report,” that things just didn’t add up. Many of them
have written op-ed pieces to their newspapers, and even more have written
letters to the editors, all in one way or another protesting some aspect of
this report that has caused so much damage and heartbreak to Penn State
University, its faculty, students, alumni and fans, and of course to the four
individuals unmercifully crucified; Paterno, Spanier, Curley, and Schultz, and
their family and friends.
After two of my op-ed column submissions were not
accepted by the Harrisburg Patriot-News, I realized there was only one way to
prove the “Freeh Report” was in fact totally false, and that was to dissect all
of the obvious flaws, and try to explain in precise and plain detail to the
public, and to the vitally important news media, how these points had been
misconstrued and purposely distorted, to create out of whole cloth, something
that just wasn’t there.
I hope I have been able to do that, and I hope the public
and the news media will now join in an effort to compel the NCAA to reverse the
sanctions so hastily imposed upon Penn State as a result of the “Freeh Report.”
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Excerpt:
WHAT IS THE BAR FOR BLIND AND UNQUESTIONED ACCEPTANCE OF THE
FREEH REPORT
CONCLUSIONS?
The Freeh Report begins with an indisputable falsehood that
an assault occurred in 1998, a point so critical it could not have been a
mistake. It was deliberately designed to support so-called “conclusions” that
are nothing more than pure unsupported speculations, with an obvious agenda to
exclude any and all exculpatory evidence, or explanation to the contrary.
If known facts of record are clearly and indisputably
misstated in the Freeh Report, why is the single, most damaging speculation of
the entire report accepted as fact?
All of the subsequent results of the Freeh Report, which
could eventually cost Penn State, and Pennsylvania taxpayers, a hundred million
dollars, and the additional costs of destroying the reputation of one of the
finest universities in the nation, and prominent individuals, including Joe
Paterno, with over sixty years of completely unblemished service, ironically
based upon education above sports, were all the result of a single sentence of
pure speculation:
“HOWEVER, IT IS MORE REASONABLE TO
CONCLUDE…”
The Freeh Report, while
deliberately presenting falsehoods as fact, then states that it is more
reasonable to “conclude” that four well respected persons are all liars and
conspirators, who went to great lengths to protect a serial child-molester for
the single purpose of protecting the reputation of the Penn State
These charges were made in an
afternoon press conference and within hours were accepted as unchallenged fact
throughout the nation.
No one at the time, including the
Penn State Board of Trustees, could have even read the Freeh Report upon which
these “conclusions” were based.
Now that it is known that the
Freeh Report contains several critical falsehoods, no matter whether they were
deliberate or by mistake, what then is the basis for accepting as fact,
anything in this document?
This question must be answered by
the national news media. In the interest of justice, it can no longer be
ignored.
EDITORS, REPORTERS, JOURNALISTS AND COMMENTATORS NOW HAVE TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE. THERE IS A LOT OF CROW ON THAT PLATE…BUT IT COULD TASTE PRETTY GOOD IF THE RIGHT THING IS DONE. YES, WE ARE PENN STATE…AND WE DESERVE JUSTICE!
