'The members of the Judiciary Committee will no doubt be proud of themselves for the hearing, which dominated news coverage throughout the day Wednesday. But did they actually learn anything?' writes nrarmour for usatodaysports.
“You’re fighting against a systemic problem in our country that isn’t just in sports,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, said. “We’ve seen it from church institutions to the Boy Scouts – when you talk about pedophilia all the way to sexual assault – we see it in diners, workplaces, factory floors.
Firing the FBI agent who ignored Maroney’s complaint and then, almost two years later, spun a false narrative out of it, might bring a measure of satisfaction. But it doesn’t change the attitudes that caused it to happen in the first place. I’m not talking about getting FBI Director Christopher Wray to confirm that Michael Langeman, the lead agent in the Nassar case, had been fired. I’m talking about substantive changes all institutions could implement to make women and children safer and feel more protected.
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