I was pleased to see that President Bush commuted the sentences today of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, the two former Border Patrol agents who are in prison for shooting a Mexican drug dealer who was fleeing back across the border, and then trying to cover up what they did. I hated to say it, but I don't see how Ramos and Compean could have gotten off for what they did, as much as I would have liked to have seen it. But I'm glad the president is setting them free, and appreciate his showing them mercy. Their conviction was just, and so is their early release. That scummy drug dealer, by the way, has since been re-arrested for drug trafficking.
Frankly, I was surprised that Bush didn't pardon Scooter Libby. Pleased, but surprised.
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The MSM is playing it as "They lied under oath". And, that it was a suspected drug dealer. What it was, was a federal prosecutor gone wild, Johnny Sutton, a real turd.
What's the discrepancy regarding their testimony? They either lied or they didn't lie. Yes, I know I'm being lazy by not finding my own links.
Just won a dozen bets from my Dem friends, and I won't be buying my own lunch for a while.... Bush, for better or worse, sticks by his convictions, often to a fault. His reasons for granting a commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence rather than his pardon would not have changed in the interim, so neither would his decision. If Bush was going to pardon Libby at all, he would have done it the first go-round, public opinion be damned. He would have pardoned him because he thought it was right thing to do, period.
Ben, all of the transcripts of the trial can be downloaded at http://mexicotrucker.com/downloads.
These are not two "Innocent American Heroes", "Patriots" whatever the rabid right chooses to label them with.
They are two felons who had a choice to make. Follow the rules and report the discharge of their weapons as BP rules required, or do as they did and leave a wounded suspect, not a drug smuggler, nor illegal entrant, but an unknown suspect, to flee back into Mexico.
They scoured the scene for their shell casings, thereby destroying a possible crime scene and then lied and never reported their actions until the Internal Affairs investigator caught up to them. And then they lied some more.
Read the transcript, all 4000 pages of it. It will open your eyes to the truth of this case and not the numerous fairy tales their supporters have spun.
The transcripts tell the story Ben, but Porter sums ot up pretty well. These two guys don't deserve medals and were just hooked up big time by president Bush. If any of us would have done what these two officers did we would still be in prison. If these guys would have just admitted what happened that day and reported it, they probably would have just gotten fired for a bad shot. The lying and destroying of evidence is what really screwed them and believe me they did both. They just became the darlings of all people who hate illegal immigration and those television commentators who are making a career out of demonizing poor people who are trying to change their circumstances. I'm not saying illegal immigration is lawful, but if your going to fault poor desperate people for not following the rules, how about expecting our officers to do the same.
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