2/27/2008

For the "We're spending tax money on this?" file

The Associated Press is reporting that the House Oversight Committee has asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Roger Clemens perjured himself in his testimony before Congress:

The chairman and ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said they sent a letter to Justice.

"We believe that his testimony in a sworn deposition on Feb. 5, 2008, and at a hearing on Feb. 13, 2008, that he never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone, warrants further investigation," committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis wrote. "That testimony is directly contradicted by the sworn testimony of Brian McNamee, who testified that he personally injected Mr. Clemens with anabolic steroids and human growth hormone.

"Mr. Clemens's testimony is also contradicted by the sworn deposition testimony and affidavit submitted to the committee by Andrew Pettitte, a former teammate of Mr. Clemens, whose testimony and affidavit reported that Mr. Clemens had admitted to him in 1999 or 2000 that he had taken human growth hormone."

We're a nation that's about $9 trillion in debt, but apparently we can spare enough cash to investigate if a baseball player lied to Congress about doing something that wasn't even illegal. Yeah, that makes sense.

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