re: Lance Armstrong was part of the most complex doping scheme ever...

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Another truth is Travis Tygart, CEO of USADA, was involved in meetings conducted by Novitzky during the FDA’s investigation, which as stated above, failed to have formal charges filed against Armstrong. The FDA then gave its evidence to USADA, a non-profit, non-governmental agency, which then accused Armstrong of doping violations in a charging letter U.S. District Court Judge, Sam Sparks called “so vague and unhelpful it would not pass muster in any court in the United States.”

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After the FDA failed to persuade the federal grand jury to file a single criminal indictment against Lance Armstrong, and the US Attorney dropped the case, all that evidence obtained by the FDA during its criminal investigation made its way to Travis Tygart and USADA.

USADA’s evidentiary threshold is far less stringent than the FDA’s because it is not subject the rules that governed the FDA’s criminal investigation. US District Court Judge Sam Sparks stated in his opinion dismissing Armstrong’s lawsuit against USADA and Tygart that “the deficiency of USADA’s charging document is of serious constitutional concern.”

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Would you lie under oath to save a friend? These guys were all subpeonaed, none of them ratted out Armstrong voluntarily.

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