{"id":1250,"date":"2012-04-17T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2012-04-17T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:01:14","slug":"the-perils-of-perjury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"THE PERILS OF PERJURY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Clemens is about to be tried, again, for perjury.\u00a0 It is really quite simple.\u00a0 Clemens denies ever using performance-enhancing drugs. \u00a0There is a fair amount of evidence that he is lying:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.search.yahoo.com\/?fr=w3i&type=W3i_SP,204,0_0,StartPage,20120102,16898,0,8,0<\/a><\/p>\n

The last time the government tried this, the judge declared a mistrial.\u00a0 The problem is that Andy Pettitte told congressional investigations that Clemens confessed in 1999 (or 2000) that he used human growth hormones.\u00a0 Apparently, Pettitte told his wife Laura about the conversation.\u00a0 The judge ruled that her testimony was inadmissible because she didn\u2019t hear Roger Clemens directly.\u00a0 The prosecutors showed a video of Representative Elijah Cummings, D-MD, questioning Clemens where he referred to Pettitte\u2019s conversation with his wife.\u00a0 That ended the trial because the jury was exposed to inadmissible evidence:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/6768625\/roger-clemens-trial-judge-declares-mistrial<\/a><\/p>\n

Frankly, this whole thing seems like a gigantic waste of time.\u00a0 Why did congress need to get involved at all?\u00a0 Only a na\u00efve fool didn\u2019t realize that baseball players were using steroids.\u00a0 This was hardly limited to Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds.\u00a0 This should have been dealt with by Major League Baseball.\u00a0 There was a problem, but the involvement of the government accomplished nothing.\u00a0 The government indicted Barry Bonds for perjury.\u00a0 They convicted him only of giving an evasive answer.\u00a0 They couldn\u2019t convict Bonds of lying.\u00a0 He was sentenced to 30 days house arrest and he is even appealing that conviction.\u00a0 Now the DOJ is back, trying to salvage its pride by getting a conviction of Roger Clemens.\u00a0 What this would accomplish is beyond me.\u00a0 I suspect that Roger Clemens, like a lot of other baseball players at the time, was using human growth hormones or steroids.\u00a0 His denials do not pass the smell test.\u00a0 But neither does the decision to waste valuable time and money prosecuting him.\u00a0 Both Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano appear to have also committed perjury, with regard to a far more serious subject<\/p>\n

In 2000, the Independent Counsel investigating the White House Post Office scandal (Travelgate) stated there is \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton lied under oath in denying that she played a role in the 1993 White House travel-office firing:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/community.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/archive\/?date=20000623&slug=4028256<\/a><\/p>\n

The media yawned, apparently because it was hardly a surprise to learn that Hillary Clinton told a lie.\u00a0 If Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder or Janet Napolitano happen to say something, under oath, \u00a0\u201cinconsistent with the facts\u201d that is not perjury, that is politics.\u00a0 But if Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens say they didn\u2019t use performance-enhancing drugs, and someone disagrees, that is perjury.<\/p>\n

I think it is extremely unlikely that Roger Clemens will go to jail.\u00a0 Regardless of the facts, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised by an acquittal.\u00a0 But in the meantime, the DOJ will have spent a fortune prosecuting this case, and they will probably succeed in causing great financial hardship to Roger Clemens.<\/p>\n

Senator Ted Stevens was convicted of failing to properly report gifts.\u00a0 He was convicted on October 27, 2008.\u00a0 He was convicted of \u201cmaking false statements.\u201d\u00a0 As a result, he was defeated in the election by Mark Begich.\u00a0 Mark Begich arrived in the Senate just in time to cast the deciding vote for Obamacare.\u00a0 I should point out that this was in addition to the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback and the re-writing of Massachusetts law to allow the Governor to appoint a Democrat to replace Ted Kennedy.\u00a0 \u00a0By April of 2009, it was so obvious that the conviction was improper that Eric Holder directed the justice department to \u201cSet Aside the Verdict and Dismiss the Indictment with Prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n

At what point, even to the lame stream media, does it become obvious that there\u2019s a serious disconnect here?<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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