Posted on 01/17/2009 6:08:38 AM PST by BellStar
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, made a final plea this week to President George Bush to commute the sentences of jailed U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. “Because of the excesses of the prosecution against them, they will continue to sit alone in those cells for another decade,” Cornyn wrote, according to a report in the WorldNetDaily. “That is unless President Bush commutes their unjust sentences. In his remaining days as president, I ask President Bush to show mercy and use his clemency power to give back Agents Ramos and Compean the next 10 years of their lives.”
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I think the reasons are two-fold: blind loyalty to Johnny Sutton and a desire to stick it to the conservatives who nominated him in 2000.
But the Bush-bots always say he is a “good man”. That’s not even true, as this case shows.
I can't and don't want to believe that is true. I'm not that blind! More here that we don't know.
PARDOND BY BUSH TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Commuted. Oi!
The action by the president, who believes the border agents received fair trials and that the verdicts were just, does not diminish the seriousness of their crimes, the official said.
Compean and Ramos, who have served about two years of their sentences, are expected to be released from prison within the next two months.
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