Lance Armstrong adds to the legal team

Lance Armstrong adds two lawyers to his legal team who previously won a major legal victory against federal investigators in a case of doping.

John Keker and Elliot Peters in San Francisco representing Baseball Major League players as they won a trial calls key two years ago, in which a panel of federal judges ruled that officers did not have the right to seize the anonymous testing of baseball results to the since 2003.

A researcher from top in this case, Jeff Novitzky, led a federal probe if seven times winner of the Tour of France Armstrong took medication performance enhancing and led a systematic doping program on his US Postal team.

Last week, "60 Minutes" has released a report in which the former teammate Armstrong Tyler Hamilton, who testified before a federal grand jury, said that he saw Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs. The CBS program also reported that George Hincapie, friend close to Armstrong and his former teammate, said federal authorities that he and Armstrong each other supplied with the performance-enhancing drugs and discussed these issues.

Armstrong has always denied doping in his seven consecutive victories in Tower of France from 1999 to 2005.

In the case of baseball, the Government seized samples and business of drug testing in baseball in April 2004 in the Barry Bonds BALCO investigation and others. In 2009, the 9th Circuit Court of appeal of the United States in San Francisco said Federal agents trampled players against unreasonable search and seizure protections.

Keker Thursday criticized leaks of testimony to the media in the Armstrong case and called the investigation a waste of money.

"We know Novitzky and plan to prove that his repeated, illegal leaks aimed only to destroy a true hero, not only in sports, but in the fight against cancer," said. "That the Government is spending tax money investigating on bike Europe races long ago is a scandal."

The federal probe of cycling is run in Los Angeles, where the grand jury in the case is sitting. Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the Office of the Attorney for the U.S., declined to comment on the additions to the legal team of Armstrong.