Re: Barry Bonds indicted
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You don't think it has anything to do with them fearing egg on their face without even an indictment after 4+ years of investigations?
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That is one of the worst theories I have heard -- and it has been repeated here often. How long have you spent in a U.S. Attorney's Office? These are not your local D.A.'s.
It is difficult for a U.S. Attorney's office to seek an indictment to avoid egg on the face -- and in high profile cases, they don't have the last word. It has to go up the line through the justice department. Because the process goes on behind closed doors, it is very easy to walk away without indicting and it is very common for them to do so... you just don't know it because they don't necessarily announce it. Indictments are public. Failures to indict are not.
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None of that has anything to do with what is going on here. Most of the time, the public isnt aware that three seperate grand juries have been convened. A failure to indict here would have been EXTREMELY public and loud. Deafening, even.
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