An additional batch of documents was released Wednesday that further suggest the NCAA broke its own rules and displayed bias toward USC and former assistant coach Todd McNair during the Reggie Bush investigation.

The documents also indicate that members of the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions had doubts about the validity of the case against McNair, who is accused of lying to NCAA investigators.

The documents were part of a brief filed by McNair’s attorneys, who have sued the NCAA for defamation. The Register obtained the documents, which include 256 pages of internal NCAA e-mails and court transcripts.

One issue covered in many of the documents is the involvement in deliberations of Roscoe Howard, at the time a new public member of the NCAA’s committee on infractions. In a letter from the NCAA to USC and in depositions, it is explained that new members were supposed to act as observers only on their first cases; the Bush case was Howard’s first.

Howard, however, shared his opinions about McNair in a note that he described as a “rant,” and the then-director of the committee mentioned his role in an email to a committee member.

“As Roscoe said at some point during the Sunday morning deliberations, individuals like McNair shouldn’t be coaching, at ANY level, and to think he is at one of the premier college athletics progams in the country is outrageous,” Shepard Cooper wrote to Rodney Uphoff. “He’s a lying, morally bankrupt criminal, in my view, and a hypocrite of the highest order.”

In his lengthy note, Howard, a former U.S. Attorney, argues that the committee find USC had a lack of institutional control and asked if the hiring of Lane Kiffin should be considered an example.

“I don’t think this committee should be chained to a staff that has seemed to have fallen short with this investigation or an institution that has no intention of having us find out what actually happened here,” Howard wrote.

We will have more on this story later tonight.