Feds decide to indict Roger Clemens; torturers & war criminals, not so much.

[Bluebear]

Federal authorities have decided to indict Roger Clemens on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, according to two people briefed on the matter.

An announcement is expected shortly.

The indictment comes nearly two and half years after Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee testified under oath at a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, directly contradicting each other about whether Clemens had used the banned substances.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/sports/baseball/20clemens.html?src=mv

[joeybee12]

1. As much as I dislike Roger, I can't see the point of all this...

...compared to the true criminals out there.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. When I saw that this morning it kind of made me want to vomit.

It sends me right back to Enron and Martha Stewart.

[kenny blankenship]

3. 3 unrecs in the short time it took to load this page. Smells like... Desperation!

[Subdivisions]

4. Well, Holder and Justice have their priorities and the crimes of the previous

administration aren't a priority.

We're looking forward, remember? (Which is funny since Clemons' offense took place in the past, during the bush admin...)

[SidDithers]

5. You think lying to Congress shouldn't be aggressively prosecuted?...nt

Sid

[katandmoon]

6. Where did he say that?

[Subdivisions]

11. Sid, please show how the OP thinks or implies that. n/t

[Ignis]

24. +1, I'd like to see support for that claim, too.

But I suspect we'll get crickets in return.

[LostinVA]

16. I think you are kneejerking to who the OP is

[Forkboy]

20. You're reaching, Sid.

[Bluebear]

23. Ah, is *that* who 'ignored' is? Confirmation that it was a good move on my part lol

[Subdivisions]

21. Still waiting for a respone to my post #11, Sid. Why suddenly so quiet? n/t

[Bluebear]

27. Still no return to the scene, eh?

:rofl:

[damntexdem]

7. Yeah, but the torturers and war criminals didn't testify in a baseball doping scandal.

Get your priorities straight! ;-)

[kenny blankenship]

9. Now that's a past with a future!

the other one, the past in which Bush and Cheney shredded the Constitution and committed warcrimes and used torture in the furtherance of empire, that's too mundane and ordinary and just not worth talking about. Is it really even a past?

[TheKentuckian]

8. With all the crooks and war criminals we got lose this kind of thing infuriates me

[Bitwit1234]

10. And the refused to indict Rove for the firing of the attorneys

Gonzales for his shadiness, DeLay for all the crap he did and the rest of the crooks in the Bush administration. I will say it over and over "which party did we elect?" I thought they were supposed to be Democrats not republicans.

[Renew Deal]

12. Clemens tortured the Red Sox

:evilgrin:

[KansasVoter]

13. Why negative posts on this??? People are weird!

[EOTE]

14. Didn't Clemens' use of performance-enhancing drugs occur in the past?

If that's the case, then the authorities need to follow Obama's lead and look to the future, and not the past. I mean, there's really no point in prosecuting crimes that happened in the past, is there?

[lpbk2713]

15. But Tom DeLay walks away??

WTF is wrong with this picture?

[Octafish]

17. Illegal Domestic Spies got off, too.

But, hey! They weren't taking unapproved performance enhancers.

[AnArmyVeteran]

18. Clemens should have tortured and killed people to get away with lying.

[DainBramaged]

19. But Roger is like cheesecake, easy on the eyes and stomach

the mouth breathers will love this, justice in action..............

[Bluebear]

29. ....

"I don't see ignored people. Quit trying to get my attention." - love it!

[Mnemosyne]

22. KnR for Truth! n/t

[Ignis]

25. K&R. Glad we're focusing on the important stuff like treason.

:argh:

[Solly Mack]

26. He should just say he did it in "good faith"

[slipslidingaway]

28. knr nt