The Attorney General is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in Pennsylvania and failed to act. The Freeh Report did not discuss the failures of law enforcement. As this matter unravels and the shock begins to wear off, I think there will be increasing focus on Tom Corbett.

Pennsylvanians will be voting an Attorney General on November 6. Tom Corbett's Man, Dave Freed, is tainted by his intertwined association with Tom Corbett and by his relationship with his own father in law (the grandfather of this children) who is under active investigation for financial improprieties at Hershey Trust. Many voters may not want to vote for man that is, more likely than not, to cover up a cover up.

The Democrat, Kathleen Kane, is a "prosecutor, not a politician" who does not seem to have ambition for any higher office.

I've said from the start that in addition to failures by administrators at Penn State in the Jerry Sandusky child abuse case, then PA Attorney General and now Governor Corbett dropped the ball on this as the chief law enforcement official of the state. What makes Corbett look worse is that he jumped into the fray as a member of the PSU trustees hurling stones at Joe Paterno and others, never once admitting that he could have done more. It is time that he be held accountable and this charade be stopped. He was as much at blame on the law enforcement side of things as otheres were on the PSU administrative side.

I do not believe that the whole story is known yet. But that matters not to the political hounds who are so quick to point blame to those they don't like when all that does is muck up the waters. Corbett should answer ALL the questions of his involvment but before long I think his political opponents will have him soaping up in the shower with Sandusky.

Since Corbett's name came up on this scandal, we might as well go all the way to the top, read: Ed Rendell!

People have too short of an attention span for this to be an issue when he is up for re-election. Kony 2012 right?

http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2012/07/16/opinion/doc500484c4eef82305964009.txt?viewmode=4

in PA laws are for the unconnected. People that are connected to government don't pay attention to laws, they expect and get special treatment. That goes for everything from obtaining variances from the township to raping and pillaging on a grand scale state wide level. The whole state is a corrupt cesspool when it comes to government

i believe corbett knew all along what sandusky was doing. he's as guilty as everyone else who was involved. and i do agree with heather. impeach him now!

The question in politics is always "why." Why would Governor Corbett sacrifice his entire political career on this very serious issue? What would his reward be to cover up? Governor Corbett is an extremely intelligent man and knows how to say no. Let's hope the facts show he was not involved in any cover up. I hope so for his sake and far more for the State of Pennsylvania. We can not condemn until we know the truth. The truth somtimes get distorted but you can not fool a well informed voter in the end.

As Attorney General, Tom Corbett received over $647,000 in campaign contributions from members of the Second Mile Foundation, while only assigning one investigator to the case.

Meanwhile, at the same time, he assigned 14 investigators to Bill Deweese, who spent more than 5 years trying to get him.

It is difficult to believe these campaign contributions did not improperly influence his decision to not file charges against Jerry Sandusky.

The state police trooper who initially handled the Clinton County case against Jerry Sandusky believed there was enough evidence from a teenage boy -- now known as Victim One-- to charge Sandusky with indecent assault.

See video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji7UQhr3z3M

Thanks Pat Shane Good information for those who want to put their heads in the sand. Outside SE Pennsylvania, there is a lot more attention to State politics. Democrat Kathleen Kane is a viable challenger and will, more likely than not, investigate the investigation.

If corbett were a dem we would not be having this conversation. With a scandle like this he could be nominated and elected by any dem constituency anywhere.

There's an active investigation on this very issue going on right now. Perhaps SmyrnaX wants to wait for the results before passing judgement. Reports today are Penn State ignored the state investigator's multiple subpoenas, and did not turn over the emails when requested, and even denied their very existence. If the DA's office failed, or were lied to by Penn State, we will know soon enough. Put the agendas away for a few days, and comment when the facts are known.

Pat Musselman, your as silly as my friends Daffy and Tweety.

So who do you think had the Centre Co. DA killed! Yes he is missing and nobody thinks there's a problem? Let's see who stands to be damaged the most here from the DAs information?? Who has the resources to do this? I'll bet our gov knows... He was on bed with Jerry! Let's not forget that Jerry was doing fundraisers for Uncle Tom. If you think that is going to produce a fair investigation your in a fantasy world or republican. Also who received 900,000 from the shale oil industry? Yep Uncle Tom. Who rushed to state college when this broke to direct the liars club? OPen your eyes and stop playing party politics. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck .... Must be a duck.

Corbett got the case right. If he pressed the case too soon with only one victim, it would have failed given Sandusky's stature in the community. Corbett's office methodically developed other leads that the county prosecutor didn't find. See : http://articles.philly.com/2012-07-19/news/32731243_1_jerry-sandusky-case-ben-andreozzi-serial-child-predator

so they couldn't restrict his access on campus, or access to children? They had to allow him to continue to molest young boys to 'methodically develop' other leads??

Sorry, but I think the Second Mile contributions had a little more to do with this rather than a strategic method.

I have to give Corbett a pass on this one. As the AG he definitely knew of the investigation. Being privy to an investigation, one has to keep it in secret. If he would have taken action before the grand jury was completed, he would have jeopardized the entire case. Imagine if this would have occurred with the result of Sandusky walking free. He was in a tight spot considering his position.

State Police investigators. As soon as he knew about McQueary, he had to know and what wonders if he thought this was a problem to be handled or whether he was disgusted and infuriated enough to give this a priority. http://casablancapa.blogspot.com/2012/06/we-had-shortage-of-investigators.html

being a republican i still have my own opinion of our governor... he sucks 1 term if he does not get thrown out of office

Corbett did stop Sandusky. His method was a thorough and complete investigation, which led to Sandusky's conviction.

On the other hand, the way that the Bernie FIne case was handled was an abomination, since he was tried and convicted in the press before the real investigations started and he was cleared by several different entities. His stellar reputation is forever ruined by this improper rush to judgement. See: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaab--bernie-fine-s-day-of-vindication-should-serve-as-lesson-in-caution-for-public--media-09021709.html

The state AG's office was stellar in its performance, both with Corbett at its helm and later with Corbett more or less out of the picture as governor.

Corbett is too busy worrying about corporate money, rather than the welfare of people; for example, he thinks "fracking" on college campuses is okay which shows he has no regard for public education or the sanctity of education for all. www.firebrandcentral.com

Here's one that Corbett tried to pull.... Not saying the district, but after budget was all said and done just not singed yet, he waited till all the union big wigs left town to go to a convention of sorts and decided at the last minute to write in a new law that with a 5-4 vote from the school board, any school within the district could be turned into a charter school. Effectively making all teacher contracts null and void. Luckily one union head stayed back just to make sure everything would get signed and caught this. Not even the higher ups knew he was doing this. He is a very sneaky man and should be immediately removed if this is how he conducts business. He has millions tucked away for a rainy day fund, but do any of us know how he's using it?