Congress Grandstands in Baseball Steroid Scandal

Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, of reason.tv and Reason magazine respectively, take aim at congressional interference in Major League Baseball’s performance-enhancing drug controversy. The essay is here from yesterday’s Washington Post. 

Meanwhile, at Yahoo! Sports, Jonathan Littman highlights the IRS’s aggressive use of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001, a federal felony statute, to prosecute professional athletes for lying to government agents. Littman’s piece, here, cites my long-standing criticism of Section 1001. My original findlaw.com article on the dangers of talking to government agents, even in an informal setting, is here.