Isn’t there a war going on or something? (Part II)
“There’s not much more I can do at this point,” Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, told the editorial board of The Philadelphia Daily News on Monday. “We’ve exposed a lot. But the public attention span is so limited.”
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At a news conference last month, after interviewing the former Patriots video aide Matt Walsh, Specter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, called for an independent investigation similar to baseball’s Mitchell report on steroids.
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Two weeks ago, Specter entered a statement in the Congressional Record, saying, “The commissioner’s investigation has been fatally flawed.”
Specter’s office stressed that he did not necessarily consider the matter closed.
“The mood is not right,” he said. “We’ve got too many other bigger problems to deal with.”
Yeah, ya think?
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