I ask this because, last week, the Democrats were furious over the fact that AG Mukasey wouldn’t file contempt citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers for ignoring subpoenas to provide Congress with White House documents or testify about the firings of federal prosecutors. In fact, Pelosi said:
“The American people demand that we uphold the law,” Pelosi said. “As public officials, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and protect our system of checks and balances and our civil lawsuit seeks to do just that.”
But it appears that telling the truth only matters when the Democrats want it to:
A Democratic congressman asked the FBI on Wednesday to drop its investigation of Roger Clemens because the pitching great had suffered enough from the probe into steroid use.
Rep. Anthony Weiner, a candidate for New York mayor in 2009, said the FBI is too busy with more important crimes to spend time trying to determine if the ex-Yankees pitcher lied to Congress about taking performance enhancing substances.
“Roger Clemens has been shamed. I think the public record is replete with examples of how he did not likely tell the truth. What is the public benefit of continuing with an FBI investigation?” Weiner said.
Weiner also suggested his fellow lawmakers had gone far enough with inquiries into steroids use by professional athletes and should let professional sports league handle the matter.
“The real incentive to clean up this mess is not a governmental one,” said Weiner, a Mets fan whose district includes parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
The FBI took over the Clemens case after Congress asked the Justice Department to look into Clemens’ testimony at a Feb. 5 deposition and a Feb. 13 hearing. Weiner is not a member of the House Oversight and Government Committee, which heard from Clemens.
Clemens testified he never used steroids or human growth hormone; his former trainer testified he injected Clemens with such substances at least 16 times from 1998 to 2001.
If investigators conclude Clemens lied on critical details, he could face charges of perjury, making false statements or obstruction of justice.
In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Weiner wrote: “Whether or not Roger Clemens may have committed perjury should not compete with real national security threats for the FBI’s time, attention and resources.”
There was no immediate comment from the Justice Department on Wednesday.
A Democrat worried about National Security? Don’t make me laugh. Unlike the Democrats, the FBI is able to multi-task. They have the ability to put the necessary man power on each task presented.
Congressional investigations are nothing but a bunch of windbags trying to make themselves feel important. Do you know that if a soldier fails to change his socks and gets even a minor (nothing more than an hour or so of warming and dry socks)immersion foot (trench foot for the WWI historians) it sets off a congressional investigation? I had to do a full bloody investigation because some private put on a pair of vapor barrier (aka Mickey Mouse) boots, inflated them using the air pressure relief valve, and then didn’t change his socks frequently enough. His section chief saw him limping, administered first aid, sent him to the medics who further dried and warmed his feet, and his feet were sore for a couple of days but he was fine other than that. I still had to spend a week interviewing people about what had happened and writing a report about it.