Shannen, you forgot the best part:

“That requires an explanation,” [Sen. Arlen] Specter told The Times. “The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It’s analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes, or any time you have records destroyed.”

A friend e-mails:

Really? A football game, as part of a private enterprise, is analogous to the alleged torture of prisoners by agents of a national government?

There can only be one reason Specter would be raising this issue now: He needs the Pats to win the Super Bowl. Spygate has been prime bulletin-board material for the Pats all season, and now Arlen has gone and put it in the news again. Want to investigate something? How about looking into whether Specter needs the Pats to cover the spread.