Don't blame Sen. Bryant alone

An administrator at Rutgers-Camden sent e-mails to all 440 faculty members last week seeking information about any dealings they had with Sen. Wayne R. Bryant, who was hired by the university in 2002 and paid up to $35,000 a year as guest lecturer, but apparently did little work before his job was eliminated last year.
Rutgers officials say they will turn over whatever information they receive from the faculty to the FBI, which has been investigating Bryant for more than a year. Question: Why doesn’t the FBI, and the top administration at Rutgers, focus instead on the person who hired Bryant, and the person responsible for supervising him?
The probe was apparently triggered by a federal monitor’s report that found Bryant had a no-show job at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where he helped steer $12.5 million in state grants. At Rutgers-Camden, Bryant was hired ias a "distinguished adjunct professor of law and public affairs" a few months after he had helped pass legislation that provided funds for an $11 million campus expansion.
The FBI should be going after Bryant. But it also should be going after the Rutgers’ officials who signed off on his hiring and who kept him on the payroll long after it was clear he wasn’t doing anything to earn his keep.