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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

All McNamee had to do was keep his mouth shut about Clemens if he wanted to avoid the media firestorm that has been created -- simply put, McNamee had no incentive to name Clemens. Pettitte's corroboration is killer to Clemens' denials. As for McNamee speaking with Clemens, I'm stunned -- is it possible that both Clemens AND McNamee are getting awful legal advice?

I still think Clemens took a polygraph test and failed. Todd, don't put anything past Clemens and his lawyer in this instance: it would have been a nice bit of PR if he could have waived those results around. When I have a client that is telling the truth about an issue, I often have them take the test and when they pass, show it to the feds and insist they polygraph their cooperator on the same issue. That request often results in a charge being dropped. All Mike Wallace had to do last night was follow up with: "have you taken such a test already?" He was too busy asking Roger to swear he was telling the truth.

As for filing the lawsuit, Clemens is out of his mind as he will simply propogate this steroid story forever and ever and ever. I'm amazed that any lawyer could give such poor advice; the only way to rationalize it is to assume that the lawyer was blinded by Clemens' celebrity and stopped thinking.