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<div class="date"><span>Updated: </span>July 12, 2011, 4:52 PM ET</div>
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WASHINGTON -- <a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/1427/roger-clemens">Roger Clemens</a>' attorney revealed Tuesday that the ex-baseball star plans to begin his defense against charges of lying to Congress by questioning if the lawmakers' investigation into whether he used performance-enhancing drugs was proper.</p><p>Clemens attorney Michael Attanasio said in court that the hearing the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held in February 2008 had nothing to do with Congress' responsibility for legislation. He said the hearing was only concerned with airing a "credibility contest" between Clemens and his longtime trainer, Brian McNamee, who said he injected the pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone.</p><p><!-- start podcast --><div class = "mod-container mod-inline content-box mod-podcast floatright mod-no-header-footer">
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<p>ESPN legal analyst Roger Cossack explains what is going on with the Roger Clemens trial.</p>
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<!-- end podcast --></p><p>Clemens denied those allegations and has been charged with perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress. The obstruction count charges Clemens with making 15 false or misleading statements to the committee, including his repeated denials he didn't take performance-enhancing drugs during his 24-season career and even whether he attended a 1998 pool party at then-<a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/tor/toronto-blue-jays">Toronto Blue Jays</a> teammate Jose Canseco's home in Miami.</p><p>McNamee says he saw Clemens and admitted steroids user Canseco talking at the party with another man and that after they returned to Canada, Clemens asked McNamee to inject him with steroids for the first time. </p><p>
Clemens and Canseco say Clemens was never at the party but was golfing at the time. Attanasio said that dispute suggests how improper the whole inquiry was and that jurors should be able to determine whether a "he said, he said debate" between Clemens and McNamee was a legitimate congressional concern.</p><p>"We're going to have a mini-trial on whether Roger Clemens went swimming," Attanasio said. "We're going to have a trial in U.S. District Court, Congress is going to have a hearing on these things? That's our point."</p><p>Assistant U.S. attorney Daniel Butler responded that the committee has responsibility for oversight that is broad and goes beyond legislation. He said steroids in baseball is a drug matter and pointed out that a 2005 hearing into the issue led to legislation to regulate steroids and triggered Major League Baseball to commission a report by former Sen. George Mitchell into the extent of the problem in the league.</p><p><!-- begin inline 1 --><div class="mod-container mod-no-footer mod-inline content-box floatright mod-no-header-footer">
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</div><!-- end inline 1 --></p><p>The Mitchell report was released in December 2007 and named Clemens and 85 other current and former ballplayers as using drugs. Clemens denied the allegations and Butler pointed out that leaders of the House committee said they needed to investigate Clemens' denials to determine what weight to give the Mitchell report and its recommendations.</p><p>Attanasio argued that if the committee's purpose was to come full circle on the Mitchell report, it had done so with a January 2008 hearing featuring testimony by Mitchell, baseball commissioner Bud Selig and former players union director Donald Fehr.</p><p>"That ship had left. That work was done. And now it becomes a question between Mr. Clemens and Mr. McNamee," Attanasio said.</p><p>But U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said if "one of the icons of baseball" was taking exception to the Mitchell report, "it seems to me that Congress has the authority to hold hearings to determine which view is correct."</p><p>Attanasio said the issue will be addressed in testimony from the first two witnesses prosecutors plan to call after opening arguments Wednesday morning. He said the first will be retired House Parliamentarian Charles Johnson, followed by Phil Barnett, who was chief counsel for the committee at the time it investigated Clemens.</p><p>The dispute over the committee's proper role came as Walton considered what preliminary instructions to give the jury, which was seated Tuesday afternoon after 3&#189; days of screening potential members.</p><p>The jury of 10 women and two men includes a woman whose cousin, former outfielder Al Bumbry, was a coach for the <a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/bos/boston-red-sox">Boston Red Sox</a> when Clemens played for the team. Another woman on the jury said she believes <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/phi/philadelphia-eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</a> quarterback <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?playerId=2549">Michael Vick</a> was "done wrong" in his criminal conviction in connection with dogfighting.</p><p>Four other people were seated as alternate jurors in case any of the 12 can't serve.</p><p>Prosecutors and Clemens' defense team removed 20 people from the pool of 36 jurors, offering no public explanation for their decisions.</p><p>Clemens' attorney pressed potential jurors not to hold it against Clemens if he chooses not to testify, his strongest hint yet that the ex-pitcher might not take the stand.</p><p>Walton also said he was upset to read a New York Daily News item that members of Clemens' family have been criticizing McNamee and other government witnesses on Twitter and elsewhere online. The judge has a gag order on parties involved in the case, but he said he doesn't have any authority over anyone who isn't before him and hopes that those that are were not involved. </p><p>Clemens' attorney Rusty Hardin said he would look into it but that it's been "extremely difficult" for Clemens' family to see harsh criticisms of the baseball star online and in the media and not be able to respond.</p><p><i>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.</i>
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<p>Roger Clemens is on trial for perjury, charged with lying when he told a Congressional committee that he did not use performance-enhancing drugs.
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<li class="alt" ><a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN" target="_blank"><img src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1417260334/quinn_tiger1215_normal.jpg" class="post-img" alt="" width="48" height="48" border="0" /></a><dl class="t-mult"><dd><strong>@<a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN" target="_blank">TJQuinnESPN</a></strong>&nbsp;Judge warning jury about avoiding newspaper and tv reports and perils of social media for the modern courtroom. No "twitting."&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN/status/90885764933619713" target="_blank"><em class="timestamp {ts: 'Tue Jul 12 13:50:29 PDT 2011'}">8 minutes ago</em></a></dd></dl></li>
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<li class="alt" ><a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN" target="_blank"><img src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1417260334/quinn_tiger1215_normal.jpg" class="post-img" alt="" width="48" height="48" border="0" /></a><dl class="t-mult"><dd><strong>@<a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN" target="_blank">TJQuinnESPN</a></strong>&nbsp;This hour with its hushed whispers & paper shuffling is prob the quietest the courtroom will be, but the case might be won or lost right now&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN/status/90879953926758400" target="_blank"><em class="timestamp {ts: 'Tue Jul 12 13:27:24 PDT 2011'}">31 minutes ago</em></a></dd></dl></li>
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<li class="alt" ><a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN" target="_blank"><img src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1417260334/quinn_tiger1215_normal.jpg" class="post-img" alt="" width="48" height="48" border="0" /></a><dl class="t-mult"><dd><strong>@<a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN" target="_blank">TJQuinnESPN</a></strong>&nbsp;And... selecting... selecting... selecting... huddling... conferring... whispering...&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN/status/90873660583325696" target="_blank"><em class="timestamp {ts: 'Tue Jul 12 13:02:23 PDT 2011'}">about an hour ago</em></a></dd></dl></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN" target="_blank"><img src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1417260334/quinn_tiger1215_normal.jpg" class="post-img" alt="" width="48" height="48" border="0" /></a><dl class="t-mult"><dd><strong>@<a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN" target="_blank">TJQuinnESPN</a></strong>&nbsp;#Clemens Judge dismisses her. Has a couple of spares handy.&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN/status/90867691786747904" target="_blank"><em class="timestamp {ts: 'Tue Jul 12 12:38:40 PDT 2011'}">about an hour ago</em></a></dd></dl></li>
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