FDA Bureaucrat Jeff Novitzky Gets Congress's Attention for Jetsetting Around the World to Add New Trophy to His Case

Another Creepy Washington
Bureaucrat Gone Wild

Jeff Novitzky is another Washington bureaucrat in desperate need of a Constitutional education. Novitzky believes it's his job to reign tyranny over the sports world and he is doing so on your dime. His latest episode has made Novitzky a world traveler racking up frequent flier miles to trips all over Europe, where Novitzky should have no jurisdiction what soever.

In case you still don't know who I am speaking of, he is a former IRS agent who decided he no longer wanted to be a tyrant that pointed the IRS's gun at you for not conforming and decided to go off on a crusade against performance enhancing drugs while still employed at the IRS. Interesting isn't it. Why would the IRS care if an athlete was using steroids.

There's your first sign Novitzky could care less about our Constitution, but then Novtizky began doping on federal power through the abuse of stepping over the limits of the Constitution and took this federal doping to a new level when he transferred to the FDA to become the federal regulator of professional sports on your tax dollars. Thus placing the federal government in an awkward position of bringing in athletes in Congressional hearings at a time when real problems were developing for the federal government--more debt, housing crisis, etc.

As if Novitzky's own use performance enhancing drugs that gave him great unconstitutional powers soon had him conducting investigations in Europe of athletes who lived, trained, competed, and possibly doped in EUROPE. Novitzky got his passport ready and began adding up the miles in an investigation of doping in European professional cycling with his target on one man.

Yest the federal bureaucrat who probably never read Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, soon set out on a tyrannical path across Europe flashing his American badge with no regard to the fact it doesn't appear any laws were broken within the boundaries of the United States. For you see, Novitzky is another federal bureaucrat with a big ego that makes this out to be a game that he doesn't like to lose.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

Thus, without Lance Armstrong ever testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, Novitzky saw another trophy to add to his mantle if he could bring Armstrong down. So he began booking flights to Europe--racking up bills costing taxpayers millions of dollars to conduct investigations in Europe. This started with a little bit of hearsay from disgraced Tour De France champion Floyd Landis, whose legal problems made him eager to sell books dishing out the dirt of the professional peloton, a rolling science lab.

Now Congress is starting to wonder what it is getting from the millions of your taxdollars this dope of bureaucrat is spending taking trips all over Europe. It appears Novitzky's witch hunt against Lance Armstrong may come to an end thanks to Congressional pressure. Jack Kingston (R-GA) wants the FDA to hand over its financial records for travel extensive investigation into Lance Armstrong. Kingston sees a bottomless pit of money going out the door to investigate Lance Armstrong and sees little good that will come out of the investigation, but does see that Navitzky will continue spending millions more of your tax dollars to get another trophy in his case.

Of course the only sad thing about this is why isn't a Republican asking the little r Republicanism question regarding the Armstrong case. What jurisdiction does Novitzky have to investigate an expatriate like Armstrong who lived, raced, trained, and probably doped in Europe. This is really an issue for the French and Spanish.