as he says, not as he does

By ( articles ) | Dec 03, 2009

David Clohessy, the director of the sex-abuse victims’ group SNAP, welcomes the release of files showing how the Bridgeport, Connecticut diocese handled complaints. “We hope that Catholics will read the documents themselves,” he says.

Has Clohessy read the documents, then? Well, no. He admits that his own statements about the Bridgeport diocese have been based on “has been leaked to the press and covered by the media for years.”