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I think you're wrong. Using that argument, there's no admissible physical evidence except what was collected by the police (or investigators).

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said by fatness :

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This is a "wait and see" situation, not a "whatever McNamee has is already worthless" situation in my opinion.

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Federal criminal authorities have sent the gauze pads, syringes and vials for testing by a laboratory. If they show evidence of blood, the authorities may consider asking Clemens for a DNA sample.

If members of the committee ultimately conclude that Clemens did not tell the truth in his deposition and make the same conclusion about the statements he makes at a committee hearing set for next Wednesday, Clemens could face charges of lying to federal officials, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

The lawyer who disclosed the existence of the syringes, vials and pads insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case. He said McNamee had injected Clemens at Clemens’s apartment in New York; Clemens was then a Yankee and McNamee was on the team’s staff. McNamee then took the syringes and pads to his home in Queens, where he had a medical waste-disposal box.

But McNamee, a former police officer, decided to save the evidence rather than discard it, the lawyer said. “He was always concerned that if he ever got caught, he would be the most vulnerable and people would throw him under the bus,” the lawyer said.

McNamee did not tell federal investigators about the syringes and pads when he first met with them in 2007. And he never discussed such evidence with investigators for former Senator George J. Mitchell as Mitchell was compiling his report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

The lawyer said McNamee kept quiet about the physical evidence out of lingering loyalty to Clemens, the winner of seven Cy Young awards, even though McNamee, by then, had created tremendous problems for Clemens. He had done so by telling federal authorities and Mitchell’s investigators that he repeatedly injected Clemens with steroids and H.G.H. from 1998 to 2001.

“There’s no question it raises issues,” a second lawyer familiar with McNamee’s situation said of McNamee’s initial reluctance to cite the physical evidence. “But at the same time, the issue is what the evidence says. If the evidence says what we think it does, then it’s all over.”

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... McNamee, a former police officer ...

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