Posted on 11/25/2008 7:47:57 AM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President George W. Bush's latest list of pardons does not include some high-profile criminals who still hope the president will grant them clemency in his final weeks in office.
On Monday, Bush granted pardons to 14 individuals and commuted the prison sentences of two others whose misdeeds included dealing drugs, evading taxes, killing bald eagles or mishandling hazardous waste.
The most recent batch, however, did not include any well-known convicts like junk bond dealer Michael Milken, who is seeking a pardon on securities fraud charges, or two politicians convicted of public corruption — former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., and four-term Democratic Louisiana Gov. Edwin W. Edwards — who want Bush to shorten their prison terms.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., noted that the list also did not include former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up. Ramos and Compean are each serving sentences of more than 10 years for shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks while he was fleeing from an abandoned marijuana load in 2005.
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Free Ramos and Compean!
I second that, free Agents Ramos and Compean, ya pig-headed, legacy-building, RINO-sell out JERK!
If Bush doesn’t pardon those two guys he can go to hell as far as I’m concerned. He has one last chance to do something right.
Never moind any pardon of criminals - small potatoes.
He let the Ruskies just sail into our hemisphere with warships.
Why doesn’t Bush just pardon all the low level criminals in federal prisons and move all the al-Qaeda thugs into the prisons in the leftish parts of the country...such as the Federal Medical Facility Ayer. The people in Haarvaard will just freak out!
He was convicted in 1996 on federal charges of illegal storage, disposal and transportation of a hazardous waste without a permit, according to court records. The waste was pentachlorophenol and creosote sludge. He was sentenced to three years' probation with six months' home detention on each charge. The sentences were to run concurrently. He was also fined $1,000..................He completed his six months' home confinement but never tried to pursue a pardon until his daughter, Karen Flint, decided to take action. As part of a college government class project, she wrote a letter to the president asking for a pardon for her father.
"We were challenged by our instructor to make a difference and write somebody in office," said Flint, 37. "Some students were writing about potholes. I had more important things on my mind. My dad was a top priority."
Flint mailed the letter in February 2003 and got a reply in May 2003 that included paperwork to apply for a pardon. Daniel Pue and his wife completed the application and mailed it. They received a reply about a month later seeking more information, he said.
The Pues didn't hear anything for another two years. Then one day, an FBI agent called about doing a pardon investigation, Daniel Pue said.
The agent interviewed Daniel Pue, his wife, family, neighbors and co-workers, and said the information would be sent to the pardon attorney for review. That was the last Daniel Pue heard about the pardon, until Monday.
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have Ramos and Compian asked for a pardon yet?
I read the list the other day and it seemed pathetic to me - why pardon someone who has been convicted of theft or drug dealing? Sheesh - pardon someone who killed another in the defense of a child or a family member - pardon someone who was convicted on a technicality - not someone who blatantly broke the law!
He does seem to favor the druggies, which is kind of weird.
Maybe Bush will pardon all drug offenders, now that would really be something.
If Bush does not pardon Compean and Ramos it will be a permanent stain on his record which conservatives will dedicate themselves to reminding him and the country of for the remainder of Bush's life and beyond...
It won’t be necessary to free/pardon the drug dealers once Bambi gets into office. Didn’t he say he wanted to lessen the crimes for crack and such and his bff Bill Ayers says prisons should be abolished.
If it was worth doing, why wait until the final month of the final year of the second term?
At least he wasn't rotting in jail all that time (6 months home confinement had already passed).
Free Ramos and Compean! and give them medals for their service. Re-instate them to the border patrol !!!
Winning the war in Iraq and crushing Al Qaeda there was not something right that President Bush has done? How about killing most of Al Qaeda leadership and tens of thousands or their battlefield terrorists? How about keeping us safe for the last seven year? How about cutting our taxes taxes? How about Roberts and Alito? How about a ban on embryonic stem cell research?
If Bush wants to be remembered, he should give everyone a clean slate and empty the Bastille nationwide. No that would give the country a change they could believe in and him a permanent place in history.
If it was worth doing, why wait until the final month of the final year of the second term?
Who knows what the process is that is used to determine who gets a pardon or not..... However in most of President Bush’s cases it seems they aren’t high profile cases and most have served their time long ago. Restoring rights seems about the most accomplished thing under these senarios and to those that received them I’m sure that is a major thing.
I called the White House Comment Line (202-456-1111, then 1, 1) to express disappointment about pardoning a drug dealer but not Ramos and Compean. I told the lady that i was saddened and disappointed by the vindictiveness displayed by this injustice.
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