Mike Rains Statement regarding Barry Bonds Indictment November 15, 2007

"All you need to know about the government’s case is that they leaked an official indictment to every media outlet in America and withheld it from Barry, his lawyer, and everyone else who could read it and defend him.

"Now that their biased allegations must finally be presented openly in a court of law, they won’t be able to hide their unethical misconduct from the public any longer. You won’t read about those facts in this indictment, but now the public will get the whole truth, not just selectively leaked fabrications from anonymous sources. Every American should worry about a Justice Department that doesn’t know if waterboarding is torture, and can’t tell the difference between prosecution and persecution.

"What we want to know is whether the media will spend as much time repairing Barry’s reputation as they have destroying it after he is proven innocent by a fair and impartial jury."