Saints hired former FBI director Louis Freeh to take top-to-bottom look at organization after bounty, wiretap claims

I'm with Sarcastic on this. I don't think this is about refuting the league's claims, I think it's more about making sure there's nothing else going on that could embarass the team. I'd expect that the hoped for outcome from Benson is simply a "certification" that everything in the organization is on the up and up, not that the team was unfairly punished for past violations.

Agreed. I doubt this is about throwing something in the league's face. Benson is just not that type of guy.

You got the league making claims, ESPN making claims, your own staff stabbing you in the back, dudes taping team meetings, etc, sometimes you just have to see what you got going on in house.