Top Ten Cloves: Reasons Mitchell Baseball Steroid Investigation is unlike CIA Torture Tapes Case

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By J. Thomas Duffy

10. Everyone is pretty sure that White House Council Harriet Meirs didn't know baseball players were taking steroids.

9. So far, no one has asked current or former baseball executive to investigate CIA erasing torture tapes.

8. No evidence -- yet -- White House told baseball players to take steroids.

7. No record of Al Qaeda, or other terrorists, taking steroids.

6. Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) said she didn't write a letter to MLB asking them to not let baseball players take steroids.

5. No reports of Major League Baseball dragging their steroid users off to black site prisons in foreign countries.

4. Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann not prepared to say if a terrorist hits a home run, that it is, indeed, a home run.

3. No known videotape of baseball players, or terrorists, being "steroidboarded."

2. No memo found yet of President Bush telling baseball players to "leave no marks", so that, if there's no sign of steroid use, it didn't happen.

1. Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) wouldn't be able to say that "hitting a home run is like swimming."

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Juiced-Up Links

The Mitchell Report

TPM's Timeline of the CIA's Torture Tapes

The Mitchell Report - Highlights of the Mitchell Report, released Thursday

The Mitchell Report: Naming Names

Steroid Report Implicates Top Players

Clemens, Pettitte named in baseball steroid report

Mitchell report: Baseball slow to react to players' steroid use

Garlic Coverage of Baseball Steroid Scandal















(Cross-posted at The Garlic.)