WASHINGTON -- Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter called today for an independent investigation into the Patriots' illegal taping practices, citing what he called an obvious conflict between the interest of the NFL and the public interest.
One could assume this to mean just the Patriots'. However, Senator Specter was quoted as saying:
"After a lot of consideration it's my judgment that there ought to be an impartial investigation, an outside investigation, like the [steroids] investigation that baseball had with former [Maine] Senator George Mitchell," said Specter at a Capitol Hill news conference.
This would indicate to me a wider net will be cast. Why? Read carefully the statement, "...there ought to be an impartial investigation, an outside investigation, like the [steroids] investigation that baseball had..." baseball = organization = NFL. I'm sure it could be taken either way - just the Patriots or the entire NFL. Only time will tell.