Posted on 02/15/2008 10:56:41 AM PST by Hatteras
A day after meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in Washington, Sen. Arlen Specter said he continues to be troubled by a number of issues surrounding the league's handling of Spygate and will continue his investigation.
Specter, R-Pa., told ESPN.com that Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., offered support Thursday for his inquiry into the New England Patriots' questionable videotaping practices, saying Leahy is "prepared to have the committee pay for people who travel and investigate." Leahy sat in on a part of Wednesday's session with Goodell and league counsel, Specter said.
Sen. Arlen Specter, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, calls Roger Goodell's reasoning for the destroying of the Spygate evidence "absurd." "I'm determined to go forward," said Specter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee. "You have answers and positions where [Goodell] is saying that with the destruction of tapes that, 'We did the right thing. We're absolutely sure.'
"Well, that is absurd … Goodell says things that don't make sense."
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Carolyn
Goodell v. Specter...
Pity they can’t both lose.
Because they like to grandstand and he likes the Eagles.
Senators got involved many moons ago when the NFL came to them asking for favors.
Sure, Roger.
The future of our nation and culture, as well as the Republican party, hangs tenuously in the balance, and this clown is going on about foootball?
I too wondered the same thing, and were upset about them “wasting” their time (and our money) on such things-then I realized that every day they spend on this and steroid investigaions is one less day they have to
1) raise my taxes
2) take away my freedon.
So I wish they would investigate Spygate 24/7/365
I forget, why is the US government involved in the NFL?
This idiot should be impeached for this statement.
Why are senators getting involved in football?
Because like baseball they have a Federal Anti-Trust expemtion.
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Carolyn
Congress makes me physically ill.
Maybe the Senate should have Goodell water boarded?
Specter’s single bullet explanation doesn’t pass scrutiny either.
WHAT DID THE BURGLAR DESTROY FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES????
Today they are questioning athletes. Tomorrow who knows who will be under the microscope?
This is always put forth on this forum like it's the end all argument. Hard to believe this is a place for those concerned with all controlling government. So they give up control of their own operation in exchange for exemption from some threat. Sort of like the restaurant owner buying his linens from a certain linen company in exchange for exemption from "accidental" fires.
SPECTRE, you jackal!!!! Why aren’t you busy grilling the treasonous House leadership in the media over how they just left town to allow a critical anti-terrorist measure to expire tomorrow night??
Everyone should read Andy McCarthy’s great column today in Human Events, about how after 12 midnight on Sat. it will be much more difficult to monitor OVERSEAS terrorist communications — the losers in the House slipped out of town and didn’t pass a bill, but of course Arlen SPECTRE is infinitely more concerned about a sport than about American lives around the world.
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