Looking at the court suit filed Friday by former Penn State President Dr. Graham Spanier, and you ask, "Is it really about requesting e-mails to 'refresh' his memory for the Freeh commission interviews or to prepare for other possible, legal problems?" The dates alone for the e-mails requested -- 1998-2004 -- coincide greatly with the Jerry Sandusky investigation. Especially 1998, when the first incident, allegedly involving Sandusky with a young boy on campus, was reported.

Spanier prided himself in being involved in many aspects of the university. In responding to a question while he was a guest speaker once at a Centre County business chamber luncheon, he said that personnel issues, were among the toughest to deal with, to the point they sometimes "kept him up at night." So what's in the e-mails he's seeking? Look who he accuses of holding on to them: the Attorney General's office.

Spanier and former AG, now Gov. Tom Corbett, clashed frequently. Early in 2011, after Corbett proposed his first state budget that cut PSU funding heavily, Spanier responded with a nearly hour long press conference in the campus Outreach Building proclaiming, "Abraham Lincoln is weeping," making reference to Lincoln's work that set up land grant institutions. Spanier predicted gloom and doom for higher education in Pennsylvania.

According to the suit filed Friday, within a month, he was called into the Attorney General's office, and then the next month he was ordered to appear before a grand jury -- both times to answer Sandusky and PSU related questions. Then there are questions about Corbett's role in the dismissal of Spanier and Joe Paterno, especially the night last November when the trustees made their decision, meeting behind closed doors while Corbett was on a speaker phone from Harrisburg. Corbett told us in February, he only said only one thing during the entire meeting, reminding the trustees about the alleged child victims in the Sandusky indictment. Since then, more than one person in the room that night tells us something is wrong with the governor's memory. Even earlier this month, at the PSU trustee meeting, Corbett, taking a dig at Spanier, told trustees how much better state budget negotiations are going this year with new PSU President Rodney Erickson.

Along with Spanier's court suit over recovering e-mails, we also learn Friday that former PSU lead counsel Cynthia Baldwin has hired her own attorney. She's a former PSU trustee who was brought into Old Main as the university's top attorney shortly after a court battle over tearing down a campus fraternity house, resulting in PSU paying a sizeable settlement.  Remember Attorney General Linda Kelly in her Harrisburg press conference after Sandusky, Curley and Schultz were indicted, said Paterno was cleared in their investigation...but she wouldn't say the same for Spanier. Now he wants e-mails from the heart of the Sandusky scandal timeframe and Baldwin has hired an attorney. So you wonder...what's next?