George Mitchell, exculpator for USOC Investigation, just read newspapers.

"George Mitchell headed a U.S. Olympic Committee inquiry, launched after the IOC and Salt Lake Organizing Committee probes (into bribery).

• It covered little new ground, placing the blame squarely on the IOC (not the USOC)...

The USOC "was looking for some way to exculpate itself from any involvement in a process that was seriously flawed and in which it had a serious part," (Dick) Pound said.

• The inquiry panel, he added, "didn't do much independent investigation. As far as I can tell, most of it was simply reading newspapers."" (USA Today, 3/31/06)

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