Clemens’ First Lie Uncovered? Sure Looks Like It

The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS reports today that private investigators hired by Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte interviewed Brian McNamee, on tape, the day before the Mitchell Report came out. Of course, we want to hear what’s on that tape, but what about Clemens telling Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes that he didn’t know that he was going to be implicated in the Mitchell Report?:

Roger Clemens 60 Minutes Interview

Mike Wallace (5:40): “Did you know ahead of time what was going to be in George Mitchell’s report?”
Clemens (5:44): “I did not.”

From that, it looks like we’ve uncovered the first crack in Clemens’ denials about steroids.

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