The Penn State sex scandal is making headlines again.Former Athletic Director Tim Curley and former PSU Vice President Gary Schultz, scheduled to go on trial next week on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, pleaded guilty, the Inky reported. That left former PSU President Graham Spanier as the lone defendant in the case.
Meanwhile, veteran journalist John Ziegler has a scoop on lawnewz.com about an FBI background investigation of Spanier for a top-secret security clearance that found "not a shred of evidence any kind of cover-up, deception, or malfeasance" at Penn State.
Excerpts from the 110-page FBI report published online by Ziegler:
The circumstances surrounding subject's departure from his position as PSU president do not cast doubt on subject's current reliability, trustworthiness or good judgement and do not cast doubt on his ability to properly safeguard national security information.
Finally, blogger and U.S. government analyst Ray Blehar explores the mystery of why Curley and Schultz would have chosen to plead guilty now and he concludes it wasn't about the law. But it may have been about fear of not getting a fair trial, Blehar writes, or maybe they even got paid under the table.