I agree. The excerpt that is most damning to me, is this one:
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Once, in February, 2001, the four men decided they would report the incident to the Department of Public Welfare; but Paterno then had a conversation with Curley, and the men agreed not to do so, Freeh wrote.
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In other words, they were going to report it, JoePa talked to one of them, and it didn't get reported. That isn't an instance of him turning over responsibility to his superiors and trusting that they'd do the right thing as he's always maintained. That isn't a lapse of judgement. That's JoePa stepping in and covering something up, pure and simple. I don't see how else you could take that.