Specter not done with Spygate - PFT.com
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124New MemberOPSPECTER NOT DONE WITH SPYGATE
Posted by Michael David Smith on June 6, 2008, 12:04 p.m.Although the Spygate story appears to be fading away as people in and around the NFL turn their focus to the 2008 season, Senator Arlen Specter isn’t done with the issue.
Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, entered a statement into the Congressional Record on Thursday in which he repeated what he had said at a press conference last month: He thinks the NFL should conduct a thorough investigation of the New England Patriots’ filming of opponents, but if the NFL doesn’t act, Congress might.
“My strong preference is for the NFL to activate a Mitchell-type investigation,” Specter’s statement said. “I have been careful not to call for a Congressional hearing because I believe the NFL should step forward and embrace an independent inquiry and Congress is extraordinarily busy on other matters If the NFL continues to leave a vacuum, Congress may be tempted to fill it.”
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, however, has made clear that he thinks the league has already investigated the matter thoroughly, and that there’s no need for the league to follow in the footsteps of Major League Baseball’s Mitchell Commission, which investigated the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.
And that means that there are two possibilities: Either Specter convinces his colleagues in Washington to join him in holding hearings, or the Spygate issue is over.
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FiresoleNew Membermeh as much as I don't want Congress involved in this, I'm not at all satisfied with the way Goodell handled this. Why on earth did they destroy the evidence to begin with? And secondly, why did it take Matt Walsh so long to finally come out and talk about this with Goodell when all he has was like 4 lousy game tapes that GOodell had already seen? Something about this whole thing just screams "cover up" to me.
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