Posted on 07/21/2007 7:28:09 AM PDT by kellynla
George Bush is no friend to the American people. His friend Scooter Libby was the lawyer who worked for Marc Rich for years while he broke the law and was pardoned. It boggles my mind as to how Scooter went from being the lawyer of a crook (not just an ordinary crook) to a high official on the VP staff.
Better question: “Mr. President, which is more important to you, being loyal to your friends, or providing justice to Ramos and Campeon?”
Sorry your thinking is that twisted. My hot button issue is the border, as with most of Americans. Bush has dropped the ball bigtime on that. There are lots of reasons for his actions there, all of them wrong. Just which DNC runner would be your choice??
I just found out the other day that Libby was Marc Rich’s lawyer.
I’m getting that feeling you get when you slam a door and it pops open so you keep on slamming it in a fit of temper. I hate that feeling.
Justice: The Senate will hold hearings this week on the imprisonment of two border patrol agents who took their jobs seriously. Will we finally treat them with the compassion and justice reserved for those they tried to apprehend?
...were pleased the Senate is finally going to take up the case brought by one U.S. attorney whose firing would have been completely justified.
That would be the case of former Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who are serving 12 and 11 years, respectively, for the non-fatal shooting in 2005 of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila. ...
The rogue prosecutor would be the U.S. attorney for Western Texas, Johnny Sutton, who has shown the same propensity for manipulating and concealing evidence for the furtherance of his agenda ....
Suttons actions have been so egregious that they prompted Diane Feinstein ... to ask for hearings into the prosecution and sentencing of Ramos and Compean. ...
As she noted ... These men were given sentences that some individuals convicted of murder would not receive. Sentences, we might add, based on the suppression of evidence and the governments reliance on and coddling of a repeat drug-runner. ...
What was notable about their case and trial was the extent to which the government took the smugglers word over theirs and how the government bent over backwards to find and assist Davila, to the point of granting him immunity, extending it to a subsequent felony, then concealing that second felony from the jury, something that might have shattered the accusers credibility.
A dear friend, no doubt. But "fair" and "even-handed"? Sutton belongs in prison.
The congressman will examine alleged involvement of the Mexican government in the decision to prosecute the agents and others... Thank you Dana Rohrabacher!
He's not going to do a thing for the Border Patrol, and the message is clear; don't do anything to the illegals or you'll be in prison too.
IMHO....
1. The two agents should be released and their records wiped clean.
2. They should be promoted to leadership positions, effective retroactively to the day of the incident.
3. They should be reimbursed for all compensation rightly due them, promotion included, from the day of the incident.
4. Mr. Sutton should forfeit all compensation he received during this kangaroo prosecution, and that should go to the two agents.
5. Mr. Sutton should fill out the remaining time in jail that the two border agents are currently looking at.
6. The witness (drug dealing illegal) should be executed.
That might set it right.
‘bout time Dana “Surfer Boy”(my congressman) did something for his salary. LOL
seriously though, I don’t expect the BP agents to be pardoned ‘til Jorge is walking out of the WH for the final time in 2009.
Yeah, LET just set aside the US Constution and the judical system and have the President rule by the emotional fiat of the rabid Know Nothings.
You all, as usual, are flying into hysteric based on pure emotion here.
We are a society of laws. It is not at ALL “Conservative: to demand the President just set aside Court rulings based on the screaming of 5th string talk radio hosts, columns in fringe publications or the various money rasining activist groups e mails.
Never bother to think about that fact do you all?
That ALL your information on this case is presented by tainted sources with a political ax to grind here? NO, because it fits your hyper emotional position on Illegal Immigration, you just accept as “facts” anything that fit your emotional whimsy
Well guess what. It possible for Border Patrol Agents to be thugs and crooks. Just because they serve in the Border Patrol doesn’t make them saints.
Bush comuted Libby’s sentence so he could stay out of jail pending the appeals process. But that process is still going forward. He did not over rule the legal system just to appease the emotional whisy of various far right pressure groups. That is what you all are demanding here.
Yes, sure. My friend, Harriet Miers. My friend, Alberto Gonzalez. My friend, Johnny Sutton.
Mr. President, when you take the oath of office, you must set aside your personal friendships and do what is best for the country, especially when your friends are idiots.
It is mind-boggling to me how tangled the DC web has become. Libby didn’t even see the inside of the jail. I wonder who has what on who if that makes sense.
A great deal of evidence was suppressed by the prosecution on what happened and the history of the illegal drug runner they shot. At least 3 of the jurist after the fact and after being informed of the facts say they would not have found the agents guilty.
Jorge Shrub is just doing his Mexican masters bidding again.
Agreed, at this point almost everybody who has any sympathy for these former Border Patrol officers, would be willing to settle for a commutation of the sentance.
The conviction and sentencing was an unjust application of the law, with so many prosecutorial errors, that a fair hearing would probably overturn the sentence altogether.
I suspect the Johnny Sutton was kind of “kicked downstairs” from a post he once held in Washington DC, and was just taking shots, relying on his long-standing friendship with Dubya to protect him.
I do not know what miscreant behavior Johnny Sutton engaged in at the DC office of Justice, but there may be some relation to his current behavior. Bears questioning.
(Mental image of a pair of grizzly bears acting as bad cop and worse cop, working over suspect under a single light bulb in a locked room.)
Bush comuted Libbys sentence so he could stay out of jail pending the appeals process.
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Bush commuted the Scooter Libby sentence so he would not go to jail PERIOD.
Not just to stay out of jail pending the appeals process. Get out of Jail FREE
Calm down. I have no ax to grind here. The facts in this case are fairly well known. Agents shot a drug smuggler trying to flee back into Mexico. Or put more simply - an agent shot a criminal who refused to stop for law enforcement.
Why are these agents in prison? OK, a jury put them there. Juries can make mistakes as we saw with OJ. The Constitution provides the ability for Presidents to remedy cases where juries make mistakes. This was one of them. President Bush should exercise his Constitutional right to remedy this wrong.
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