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Over at our sister blog, Primary Source, Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian writes:

After a great deal of hand wringing and political wind-testing a powerful Congressional committee has fired the equivalent of a knockdown pitch at a pitcher who made a living intimidating others. It’s almost insignificant that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Roger Clemens committed perjury during a sworn deposition and testimony before Congress this month.

Odds are the case was headed in that direction anyway.

As anyone with even a remote interest in sport knows, Clemens has repeatedly – and defiantly – claimed that he never used performance-enhancing drugs during his 24-year career. Not once. Ever. Never.

All of which stands in stark contrast to sworn testimony by former personal trainer Brian McNamee, who says he injected Clemens with anabolic steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times between 1998 and 2001; and statements and affidavits provided by ex-Yankee teammate Andy Pettitte who says Clemens admitted using HGH in 1999 or 2000. In something out of the Theatre of the Absurd we also have issues involving testimony from a former nanny, pictures taken at Jose Canseco’s house; and, we kid you not, discussions involving breast augmentation (wives, not ballplayers).

Read more, including what one high-ranking Justice Department official said about wasting your tax money going after Clemens, over at Primary Source.

As many of you know, in a previous life I was a correspondent for the HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel." During my eight years on the show I did some 60-odd stories, one of the most memorable and meaningful having to do with Surfer’s Healing, a surf camp for autistic children, the subject of a wonderful story by Sandra Hughes and producer Matt Lombardi on the Evening News tonight.

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Armen Keteyan is Chief Investigative Correspondent for CBS News.

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As many of you know, in a previous life I was a correspondent for the HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel." During my eight years on the show I did some 60-odd stories, one of the most memorable and meaningful having to do with Surfer’s Healing, a surf camp for autistic children, the subject of a wonderful story by Sandra Hughes and producer Matt Lombardi on the Evening News tonight...

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Armen Keteyian is the chief investigative correspondent for CBS News.

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They could have been your brother or sister, aunt or uncle. Instead they saw themselves as victims. Ordinary folks who found themselves under extraordinary financial pressure, so desperate they made their way to the Metropolitan Money Store (MMS) in Maryland. Only to be scammed, they said, by the very people who promised to help.

In a suburban Maryland hotel I sat around a banquet table with Karen, David, George, Angel and Maureen and listened to their tales of financial woe. How in their time of need they turned to a fellow African-American from the community, Joy Jackson, and the people at the MMS to solve their credit problems and save their homes from foreclosure, only to see Jackson, they charge, steal their homes and bury them deeper into debt.

You wanted to cry. Some did. I wondered how Jackson could sleep at night knowing full well the number of lives she had ruined. I was looking at five.

Unfortunately, they’re hardly alone...

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