The statement of Brian McNamee who will be appearing before the Washington, D.C., grand jury investigating Roger Clemens for perjury will be awaited with great interest by Rusty Hardin, the lawyer hired by Roger Clemens for defending himself against claims that he made use of steroids.

Two-and-a-half years ago, Hardin called McNamee “a colossal liar” after the Mitchell report was released.

From NYdailynews.com:

The Washington grand jury that is investigating whether Clemens lied in 2008 when he told a congressional panel that he had never used steroids has been especially active in recent weeks, a sign that the 27-month probe might be at a crossroads.

The questioning of the witnesses who’ve appeared in recent weeks seems to have centered on the bloody gauze, vials and needles that McNamee claimed contained steroids and Clemens’ DNA. McNamee kept that evidence in a FedEx box in a closet for years, and turned it over to investigators shortly after the probe began.

McNamee is believed to have told other people about the existence of the waste long before he met with former Sen. George Mitchell, the author of Major League Baseball’s Mitchell Report on steroids, released in December of 2007. Congress asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Clemens perjured himself after he told lawmakers conducting a hearing on Mitchell’s report two months later that he never used performance-enhancing drugs.

The Congress requested the Department of Justice to investigate of Clemens perjuring himself after making a communication to the lawmakers that he never used performance enhancing drugs.