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A High Hard One
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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Posted By: Scoots826 @ 02/29/2008 1:31:57 PM
Comment: 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.....
Posted By: dsapelly @ 02/29/2008 1:08:49 PM
Comment: Let's see, the FBI is going to investigate Clemens!! Well, what could be more important, one would think we have a war going on in Iraq that has cost almost 4,000 lives, for what?? A war in Afganistan, gas prices out of sight, home foreclosures hurting Americans, our dugs coming from above all places, China, also killing Americans becuase the FDA is not inspecting these plants - have I forgotten something? So
Congress and the FBI think they have nothing better to do than spend the tax payer's money on a baseball player instead of focusing on all that is going on with this country, not a recession in front of us, if not already here. This administration and government are disgusting and they should be investigated for wasting our money on garbage. I say throw them all out, start new with people really interested in the United States of America - people who care about it's citizens and their well being.
Posted By: bobster @ 02/29/2008 11:26:41 AM
Comment: CONGRESS SHOULD MOVE ON AND TAKE CARE OF IMPORTANT BUSINESS OF RUNNING THE COUNTRY AND NOT SOME BALLPLAYERS WHO CHOOSE TO BREAK THE LAW. OUR COUNTRY HAS MORE PRESSING PROBLEMS.