How did Congress ever get involved in Baseball? Ridiculous!
It just seems that alot of things nowadays that you see in the media are directed at tearing apart or tearing down America. Baseball is America's favorite pasttime. What the heck is our government trying to do to it? Discredit our game and our players in order to set us up for bringing foreign players over here or something? They brought that British soccer player in and paid him millions!!!
Not clear on the agenda of this witchhunt yet....and there is usually an unspoken agenda if the govt is involved.....
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The FBI's Washington field office is already conducting a preliminary investigation into whether the Houston Astros' star shortstop, Miguel Tejada, misinformed the committee when it interviewed him two years ago about his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs, the official said—adding that he did not know how far the FBI has gotten in its preliminary investigation of Tejada.
During Waxman's hearing, members of the Oversight Committee split along largely partisan lines: Waxman and most members of the committee's Democratic majority expressed skepticism about Clemens's emphatic denials of drug use. Many Republicans aggressively questioned the credibility of Clemens's former trainer, Brian McNamee, who told the committee (as well as investigators for Major League Baseball) that he had injected Clemens on numerous occasions with steroids and human growth hormone.
Republican members questioned McNamee so aggressively that his lawyers publicly wondered whether Clemens had used Republican Party clout to somehow influence committee members in his favor; they pointed out that the star pitcher has a long-standing personal friendship with former president George H.W. Bush. Clemens's lawyer denied he had any particular sway within the GOP; the office of former president Bush denied that he had tried to influence anyone on Clemens's behalf.
The partisan cast to the questioning led some to wonder whether Republicans would back the Democrats' request for a Justice Department investigation of Clemens. But Republicans on the committee were eventually persuaded that Clemens should be subjected to further scrutiny because of the damning testimony of the pitcher's longtime friend and former teammate, Andy Pettitte, a GOP source on Capitol Hill said. Pettitte's deposition to the committee at least partially corroborated some of McNamee's accusations against Clemens; in confessing his own use of HGH, Pettitte also said that he and Clemens discussed the use of the drug on two occasions. Clemens has denied the accuracy of Pettitte's account, saying his friend must have "misheard."
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