Posted on 01/17/2008 11:37:31 PM PST by pissant
Two California Republican congressmen yesterday called on President Bush to pardon two former U.S. Border patrol agents sent to prison a year ago this week for shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks as he fled back into Mexico.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher accused Mr. Bush of being "arrogant and heartless" for refusing to pardon or commute the sentences of former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who were ordered last January to serve 11- and 12-year prison sentences, respectively.
He said they had spent the past year in solitary confinement "suffering conditions worse than detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
"It has been a year since Border Agents Ramos and Compean entered prison," Mr. Rohrabacher said. "This marks a year of shame for President Bush, who has been fully aware of the details of this blatant miscarriage of justice and chosen to do absolutely nothing about it.
"The president has shown us his arrogant and heartless side by permitting the wrongful incarceration of Ramos and Compean to continue," he said.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican presidential candidate who in- troduced a still-pending bill last year to pardon the agents, said Congress and the American people have "repeatedly expressed their outrage that such an injustice has been allowed to occur."
"These agents were convicted solely on the testimony of the drug dealer, who has since been indicted on federal drug charges for running drugs into the United States while serving as a federal witness," Mr. Hunter said. "Most disturbingly, he did so with border crossing cards he obtained for his cooperation."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
So two border patrol agents were convicted on the word of a drug running illegal?
Sounds real honorable. /s (just because some people need the sarcasm tag)
We could, arrest the foreign invader criminal drug dealer and waterboard him. I have a feeling he would tell all.
‘Yep, typical of our current “justice system” .....
OOOOOHH you’re CLEVER!
Really. That is a different story.
I must admit to not having read the facts.
Basically it only serves to reinforce questions about the justice system in America in general.
Let’s all continue to contact the president and tell him to pardon these two men.
I don’t expect anything different from someone who continually supports the criminal element.
I’m game. Could some private citizens do that? Not likely the Fed would do it.
Very Good, Rasta!
Pay attention or don’t bother to comment
How nice of them.
I’d trust Jeff Sessions in the Senate, but not too many others, certainly not the ones running now.
Bump!!!
Thanks to Johnny Sutton
bttt
You need to take Chertoff’s job.
I have and will continue
Thanks for the ping. B4DH.
“The bullet was never proven to have come from a BP gun...”
A full ballistics report was done showing the bullet matched Ramos’s .40 caliber service weapon. Both defense attorneys stipulated to the report at trial, meaning they didn’t object to and agreed with it’s findings.
“And he was shot in the side of his backside and never complained about it for a month...”
AOD testified at trial he immeditely went to a Mexican doctor but the severed urethra was beyond his skills to repair. As it is he will be wearing a Foley Bag (an outside bag that catches urine and has to be emptied several tims a day) for the rest of his life because he’s missing one inch of his urethra and that cannot be fixed.
Think what you want about this incident but let’s try to keep the facts straight.
“From the description of the wound, it’s sounds if it could be from a gun hidden in his waistband that discharged during his escape.”
The bullet entered his left buttuck from the rear and side, severed his urethra, bounced off his pelvis and then lodged in his right thigh where it was later removed by US surgeons.
Do you still want to calim he shot himself? Facts are a wonderful thing to have.
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