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Baseball Musings
February 10, 2008
Stepping Over a Line

Looks like Roger's lawyer shot off his mouth:

Rusty Hardin, a Houston-based lawyer representing Clemens, made his comments to The New York Times on Saturday, after he learned that Jeff Novitzky, a special agent for the Internal Revenue Service who has been leading a steroids investigation, planned to attend Wednesday's hearing.

In a letter to Hardin, the committee chairman, Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, said his remarks could be interpreted as "an attempt to intimidate a federal law enforcement official in the performance of his official duties."

Hardin told The Times on Saturday that Novitzky's intention to attend the hearing was "unbelievable" and "brazen." Hardin also said, "I can tell you this: If he ever messes with Roger, Roger will eat his lunch."

On Sunday, Hardin, who had not yet received the letter from Waxman, said he wished he had not made the "injudicious" remark about Clemens's eating Novitzky's lunch.

When the Mitchell report first broke, I spoke to a friend who is a lawyer. I asked him what he would tell me to do if I was mentioned in such a report. His advice was to let my lawyer do all the talking, and if he were my lawyer, he wouldn't say anything. Hardin has Clemens talking way too much, and is talking way too much himself. As we've seen, Jeff Novitzky isn't someone you want working against you. After all, the IRS doesn't need a warrant to go through Mr. Hardin's and Mr. Clemens's tax returns to see if anything is amiss.

Clemens spent the last few days doing a tour of Congress. Too bad his lawyer undid all that hard work.


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Comments

You cannot threaten anyone - only we Comgressman can threaten people.

I would tell Henry Waxman he's such a blowhard he increases global warming with each sound byte - but he would send me a nasty letter and hold it against me.

Grow up Henry - and apologize in public for passing DSHEA and letting thousands of contanimated supplements onto the market over the past decade.

Posted by: rmt at February 10, 2008 11:17 PM

Clemens tour of DC was masterful, organized by quality DC lobbyists, former Clinton Admin players. Perfect given their party holds the hearing's gavel. That members of the committee would meet and greet the witness in a private, social setting prior to the hearing says volumes about how inept and corrupt they are. Pathetic bastards, can they do anything right?

Posted by: abe at February 11, 2008 08:59 AM

I loath Waxman, but his action was entirely correct. Hardin's actions are inexcusable. If he keeps moving in this direction he'll be lucky to avoid getting called before the state bar. Moron, he oughta run for congress, fit right in.

Posted by: abe at February 11, 2008 09:01 AM

Those clowns in Congress are at it again. What a bunch of clowns.

Posted by: mikeski at February 11, 2008 10:15 AM
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