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McNamee: I initially lied about steroids

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WASHINGTON (AP) Brian McNamee, the chief prosecution witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial, conceded Thursday he initially lied about his involvement with steroids.

In January 2007, McNamee sent an email to Jim Murray, an employee of the agency that represents Clemens, complaining about "gross inaccuracies" in a newspaper story that identified him as a steroids supplier. He also claimed in the email he had been assured by Jeff Novitzky, at the time an Internal Revenue Service agent investigating drug use in sports, that McNamee was not named in a search warrant affidavit referenced in the story.

"It was a lie wasn't it?" Clemens lawyer Rusty Hardin said.

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