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RAMOS/COMPEAN Ping
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This ruse is a page from the Johnny Sutton play book. Delay and obfuscate! This President has the power [but not the will] to instantly forgive these two agents with a pardon, or barring that a commutation.
Johnny Sutton is a Bush buddy and the major reason that Ramos and Compean are in jail serving an excessive sentence. Bush bears responsibility for this miscarriage of justice and yet he treats it as if it is just another administrative request of no consequence. Bush showed his elitism when he commuted pal Libby but chose to ignore the pleas of Congress and the people to free Ramos and Compean.
Bush ran on a platform of compassionate conservatism. He should have qualified that by saying he was only compassionate with those who were in the Bush circle.
If Bush had not already pardoned some druggies [and other miscreants] his hard nosed stand might be defensible. But, he has already pardoned criminals, so not to pardon two US Border Agents who stopped a drug smuggler and were only convicted because the drug smuggler was given amnesty to testify against agents, is unconscionable.