Now We Know Why Andy Pettitte Won't Be There

Looks like the insufferably arrogant Roger Clemens is going to have a nuclear device dropped on his oversized head today.

WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens will be confronted with a new and damaging affidavit from Andy Pettitte when he appears before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday to testify about allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, two lawyers familiar with the matter said late Tuesday.

Clemens will also be asked about corroborating information that committee staff members developed on their own that ties Clemens to such drugs, the lawyers said. That information, they said, stands separate and apart from the assertions made about Clemens by his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee, who contends that he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998 to 2001.

The two lawyers familiar with what may be confronting Clemens at the hearing spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. They would not reveal details of the new Pettitte affidavit or of the new information obtained apart from McNamee’s assertions.

“The committee is not messing around and has other damaging evidence against Roger,” one of the lawyers said.

The other lawyer said, “Andy said enough to really hurt Roger.”

Should have just been a man about it, fessed up and walked away into retirement a filthy rich man.

Now he's probably looking at jail time.

I'll shed no tears for this jerk.

More here.

Update: Hot Air links. Thanks.

Live updates of the Congressional hearing here. Remarkably, Clemens throws his wife under the bus.

From SI's Tom Verducci: "The first bomb to drop was reference to the devastating affidavits from not only Andy Pettitte, but also from Pettitte's wife, Laura. Pettitte swore that Clemens told him in '1999 or 2000' that Clemens used HGH and that it helped his body recover. Pettitte immediately told his wife about that conversation, and she corroborated it to congressional staff. In 2005 in Kissimmee, Fla., Clemens denied to Pettitte having told him that he used HGH, claiming that Pettitte misunderstood him and that he was referring to HGH use by his wife, Debbie. But as Waxman pointed out, that would have been 'Impossible,' because both Clemens and McNamee tie Debbie Clemens' HGH use to 2003 -- not as far back as 1999 or 2000. Now you understand why Pettitte didn't want to be in the same room with Clemens. It was a severe blow to his friend's credibility."