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McNamee's lawyer predicts presidential pardon for Clemens
AP & Dallas Morning News ^ | February 14, 2008

Posted on 02/14/2008 11:38:14 AM PST by JZelle

One of Brian McNamee's lawyers predicted that Roger Clemens will be pardoned by President Bush, saying some Republicans treated his client harshly because of the pitcher's friendship with the Bush family.

Lawyer Richard Emery made the claims Thursday, a day after a congressional hearing broke down along party lines. Many Democrats were skeptical of Clemens' denials that he used performance-enhancing drugs and Republicans questioned the character of McNamee, the personal trainer who made the accusations against the seven-time Cy Young Award winner.

"It would be the easiest thing in the world for George W. Bush given the corrupt proclivities of his administration to say Roger Clemens is an American hero, Roger Clemens helped children," Emery said in a telephone interview. "It's my belief they have some reason to believe they can get a pardon."

During Wednesday's session before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Clemens repeated his denials under oath, which could lead to criminal charges if federal prosecutors conclude he made false statements or obstructed Congress.

"I'm not aware of Mr. Clemens having been charged with anything," White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said after being told of Emery's remarks.

Emery cited Bush's decision last year to commute the 2 1/2-year prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his vice president's former top aide. Libby was convicted in the case of the leaked identity of a CIA operative.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: baseball; clemens; mcnamee; richardemery; steroids
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To: montag813

Great point!


61 posted on 02/14/2008 12:15:34 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: montag813
No, Martha Stewart was not convicted of insider trading but was convicted of lying to the Feds under oath.

Roger is on the Martha Track to Federal Prison.

62 posted on 02/14/2008 12:16:10 PM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: JZelle

I’d prefer to fire the lot of them, reinstate the constitution and be done with American Socialism, but I aint gonna get that wish either.


63 posted on 02/14/2008 12:16:29 PM PST by SwankyC (McCain is the wrong liberal for the job.)
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To: TommyDale

Nope, pardons are unconditional. I’ll bet one could even be written to cover future events.


64 posted on 02/14/2008 12:16:46 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
I’m no Clemens fan, but you gotta give the man his props....and the benefit of the doubt. Its his accuser who’s the real sleazeball here.

Birds of a feather... McNamee, however, admits he dealt steroids, but Clemens is lying his ass off and not doing a good job at it. Witness tampering too! I don't see what doubt there is that Clemens deserves any benefit of. Pettitte says that Clemens told him he was using HGH in 1999. Everybody else McNamee said used steroids or HGH has fessed up, Pettite, Chuck Knoblauch, even Roger Clemens' wife.

We're to believe that Roger Clemens' wife used performance-enhancing drugs, but not Roger Clemens?

65 posted on 02/14/2008 12:19:17 PM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: bpjam
"Clemens should come out immediately and claim that Waxman and the DOJ are trying to set him up because he refused to rat out other players that they wanted. (Doesn’t matter if that is factual or not, we’ve all seen democrats do the same thing and there is no way to prove it isn’t)."

That's right ... do exactly what we criticize our political opponents for doing ... yeah, that's the ticket. Statements like this explain to me exactly why some Republicans accuse other Republicans of not having principles, and why the once conservative party is now going left in great haste.

66 posted on 02/14/2008 12:22:04 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't do anything you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics!)
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To: SpringheelJack
Roger Ratted Out his Wife to the Feds!

I am sure it is a tough Valentines Day at the Clemens' house.

67 posted on 02/14/2008 12:22:19 PM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: trumandogz

1. He may not be lying.

2. Pure-D hubris?


68 posted on 02/14/2008 12:22:30 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: trumandogz
Sure, everyone's jawbone and head grow between age 23 and 43.

What's your point?

69 posted on 02/14/2008 12:23:00 PM PST by tx_eggman ("they want to be judged on their intentions, not their results" - libtards official motto)
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To: trumandogz

“The gauze and needles are like that blue dress.”

Who keeps soiled bule dresses and used gauze and needles?

Sounds like McNamee was trying to blackmail Clemens. FYI I hate baseball.


70 posted on 02/14/2008 12:26:05 PM PST by LottieDah (Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
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To: JZelle

Draw people into a story. Get them fired up about guilt, innocence, testimony, evidence. Once this happens, they’ll pay no attention to the truly more insidious thing...the hearings, big government intrusion, Big-Nanny. The crooks and cretins win...the sheeple lose. Pathetic.


71 posted on 02/14/2008 12:26:37 PM PST by macamadamia ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Yeats)
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To: Bob
While McNamee has Roger's DNA on the gauze, he could have easily put HGH and steroids on it any time in the last 7 or so years.

I doubt it's that easy. I'd think that drug residue added after the fact to a blood stain on gauze is very different in appearance from the real thing.

72 posted on 02/14/2008 12:28:57 PM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: tx_eggman

I know Al Gore won an Oscar, an Emmy and the Nobel Peace Prize but can you tell me when Gore was in good enough condition to win a Cy Young?


73 posted on 02/14/2008 12:30:33 PM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Then, what kind of man is it that allows his wife to be injected with HGH and then rats his wife out to Congress?


74 posted on 02/14/2008 12:32:18 PM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: tx_eggman

OMG!!! Are you saying AlGore is on roids and HGH!! That might explain his roid rage over global warmongering.


75 posted on 02/14/2008 12:32:32 PM PST by copaliscrossing (If stupidity were barrels of oil, we should start drilling the liberals heads right now!!!)
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To: trumandogz
Roger threw his own wife under the bus!

Yep, and not just his wife: his mother, his agents, his former team doctor, and his former teammate and friend Andy Pettite!

Up until yesterday I though that Barry Bonds was the biggest a-hole in baseball, but Clemens has managed to lap him after yesterday's disgusting performance. Even if he never gets indicted and convicted, this lowlife will never get into the Hall of Fame now in a million years.

76 posted on 02/14/2008 12:32:55 PM PST by jpl (Dear Al Gore: it's 3:00 A.M., do you know where your drug addicted son is?)
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To: bpjam
The only two roads out of this mess are to beat the rap on some technicality or put some effort into countering the publicity trial which has been ongoing since Mitchell put that slanderous piece of trash into the public square.

Would have been a lot simpler just to tell the truth, like all the other players did. Clemens instead chose to lie, and if he reaps justice he'll be swatted with a perjury conviction.

77 posted on 02/14/2008 12:33:55 PM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: JZelle

I’m trying to care about any aspect of this, and failing miserably.

Except the still, small voice that says, “Why the HELL is Congress screwing around wasting time and my money with this?”


78 posted on 02/14/2008 12:35:00 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: bill1952

Man has not been charged with thing one. And he won’t be.”

Pardoned from what?

The only thing I saw yesterday was common sense on the side of the Republicans and total democrat BS on the other side.

Someone should put Henry Waxman out of his misery. He is always whining about something. Maxine Waters must be his mother....


79 posted on 02/14/2008 12:35:05 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: tx_eggman

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Touche’!


80 posted on 02/14/2008 12:35:09 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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