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Trustees Suit to access Freeh materials....Today's Court session

This has already been mentioned but it's an important observation which bears repeating. As you point out, the justification for not divulging Freeh's work is mainly to protect the confidentiality and RIGHTS of the people interviewed. So where was the concern for the rights of those people when they were denied the ability to have counsel present during their interviews? BoT defenders will say counsel wasn't needed since the interviewees weren't the subject of an official government investigation and the interview was nothing more than a friendly chat with Freeh's people. OK, so what would have been the big deal about having counsel present especially since everyone is now claiming the rights of the interviewees were so important? The BoT and their defenders are talking in circles.

Great points. Its also disturbing the interviewees were denied counsel when you consider in some of the interviews members of the OAG were present! No way in hell im giving an interview with no cousel while a prosecutor is present. Then again folks jobs were threatened if they didn't participate. The whole interview process was a complete and utter joke.
 
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This has already been mentioned but it's an important observation which bears repeating. As you point out, the justification for not divulging Freeh's work is mainly to protect the confidentiality and RIGHTS of the people interviewed. So where was the concern for the rights of those people when they were denied the ability to have counsel present during their interviews? BoT defenders will say counsel wasn't needed since the interviewees weren't the subject of an official government investigation and the interview was nothing more than a friendly chat with Freeh's people. OK, so what would have been the big deal about having counsel present especially since everyone is now claiming the rights of the interviewees were so important? The BoT and their defenders are talking in circles.

Pretty obvious NOW why this wasn't done - because Freeh didn't want to share the results of those interviews. He didn't want to have to release the raw materials on the 390 interviews that contradicted his narrative...so he could focus on the 10 interviews that painted Paterno in a bad light.

What Freeh did was called Cherry Picking. He interviews 400 people, ignores the 390 pieces of evidence that he didn't like and presents the 10 pieces of evidence he does like. And then he says NO to people who want to see what the other 390 people said. This crap would never stand up in a court of law, it would never stand up in a scientific study - in fact, the only place it WOULD stand up would be in a case where you wanted to push a false story.

If there is no accountability - if you don't have to justify your findings with actual evidence - then this is exactly the tactics you'd take. In other words, if you want to gin up a smear job, this is standard practice!

Anybody want to post some of those quotes from Karen Peetz where she and the Board promised TRANSPARENCY? I knew that was a lie and a joke from the start...
 
Pretty obvious NOW why this wasn't done - because Freeh didn't want to share the results of those interviews. He didn't want to have to release the raw materials on the 390 interviews that contradicted his narrative...so he could focus on the 10 interviews that painted Paterno in a bad light.

What Freeh did was called Cherry Picking. He interviews 400 people, ignores the 390 pieces of evidence that he didn't like and presents the 10 pieces of evidence he does like. And then he says NO to people who want to see what the other 390 people said. This crap would never stand up in a court of law, it would never stand up in a scientific study - in fact, the only place it WOULD stand up would be in a case where you wanted to push a false story.

If there is no accountability - if you don't have to justify your findings with actual evidence - then this is exactly the tactics you'd take. In other words, if you want to gin up a smear job, this is standard practice!

Anybody want to post some of those quotes from Karen Peetz where she and the Board promised TRANSPARENCY? I knew that was a lie and a joke from the start...

Not to mention I never believed for a minute all the documents he said they reviewed. IIRC someone did a rough estimate on the math involved on how long that would take and it was like 2 sec. per document. And yet no one in the media even batted an eye. Un freaking believable.
 
Not to mention I never believed for a minute all the documents he said they reviewed. IIRC someone did a rough estimate on the math involved on how long that would take and it was like 2 sec. per document. And yet no one in the media even batted an eye. Un freaking believable.


No one in the media can do such advanced math as 4,000,000 (or whatever) divided by X (or whatever); their teleprompters couldn't do it for them so they accepted the narrative without question! But they looked good on TV with their make up! Too bad for Sarah though!
 
Not to mention I never believed for a minute all the documents he said they reviewed. IIRC someone did a rough estimate on the math involved on how long that would take and it was like 2 sec. per document. And yet no one in the media even batted an eye. Un freaking believable.

I thought it was more along the lines of 100 documents per second per reviewer, IF they worked 24/7 for the entire duration of the review.
 
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