The e-mail containing Paterno’s second hand question was damning enough for me. There is no that the e-mail was sent.
Your choice. Trust Freeh and a “second hand email” to come to the conclusion that Paterno would think child rape could be covered up to protect himself and the college football program (the antithesis of decades of behavior), which makes him a total hypocrite, or like me have doubts that this scenario is what actually happened.