http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/01/07/2008-01-07_whole_truth_is_only_way_roger_clemens_wi.html?page=1





If Clemens does that, maybe the government just takes that as an admission McNamee is telling the truth, and leaves him alone. But if he tells the story to Congress he told to Wallace, tells it under oath, and the government does not believe him, then maybe Clemens will next hear from a federal prosecutor. And then he really is the pitching version of Barry Bonds."

It didn't happen, Clemens kept telling Wallace last night. No steroids, no HGH, nothing like that ever in his life. Didn't happen. It better not have. Or Marion Jones won't be the only star athlete of the last decade looking at jail time.

Clemens is the one who put himself into this box. Only the whole truth, and nothing but, sets him free.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sprogerside0107,0,3258803.story

Roger Clemens may have done himself one bit of good in his "60 Minutes" interview last night. A lawyer for Brian McNamee, Clemens' accuser, says it is less likely that McNamee will bring a lawsuit against Clemens for defamation.

"If what the defendant says is not believable, then in a legal sense, it is hard to show damages," Emery said. "And nothing Clemens said [last night] was believable. I can't imagine how any lawyer would allow his client to go on '60 Minutes' and lie like that. This interview is going to cause him no end of troubles."

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3184697&name=olney_buster
One thing Clemens can't change

But that won't change this fact: His name is printed in the Mitchell report, forever.


You assume that Clemens will follow up and take every opportunity to say, again and again, that he did not use steroids. The defamation suit presumably will require him to sit through depositions, to answer questions from McNamee's lawyers as part of discovery. Perhaps a jury will decide, in the end, that it believes Clemens and give him a victory in a defamation suit.

That won't change this fact: His name is part of the Mitchell report.

We cannot be naïve; it may well be that everyone named within the report is guilty. But as a model for due process, the way the Mitchell investigation was conducted was horrific, something better suited for former Senator Joseph McCarthy than former Senator George Mitchell.