Maggie's Farm

Someone can check me on this, but I think the USADA investigator in Lance Armstrong's case is the same person who investigated Roger Clemens' alleged use of drugs. As we all know, the USADA never laid a bat on the Rocket's fastball. As usual, when they couldn't indict him on the "crime", they went after him on obstruction of justice charges for lying to Congress. And even that weak case fell through. The reason I mention this is not to claim both these professional athletes are innocent of drug use--I don't know that but neither am I convinced in a legal sense that they are guilty as alleged--but that the common thread here may be one of those crusading anti-drug zealots who uses his enormous unchecked power to ruin people's lives by leveling accusations against them in public. My first awareness of how this plays out came in the case of Michael Milken, the so-called junk bond king, who was relentlessly prosecuted for insider trading but was never convicted. Milken eventually took a plea bargain and briefly went to jail only after the prosecution threatened to go after his brother, who was dying of cancer at the time. Sometimes the back story is The Story, i.e., perhaps someone needs to investigate the investigator.