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  • Breaking Bush Pardons Border agents..

    01/19/2009 9:58:34 AM PST · by tomnbeverly · 77 replies · 1,727+ views
    1/19/09 | tomnbeverly
    Breaking on Fox news
  • No Christmas Pardons for Jailed Border Agents

    12/24/2008 6:39:31 AM PST · by kellynla · 31 replies · 1,283+ views
    newsmax.com ^ | December 23, 2008 | Dave Eberhart
    Tuesday, President George W. Bush granted pardons to 19 people and commuted the sentence of one person, according to the Justice Department -- but the names of two jailed Border Patrol agents were conspicuously absent. Thus ended any hopes of a Christmas commutation of sentence for Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean in the shooting case of Mexican drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila. The president left the White House today for the Christmas holiday at the presidential retreat at Camp David. According to a Bloomberg report, however, President Bush could issue more presidential acts of clemency. The White House “didn’t rule out...
  • No Holiday Pardon for 'Scooter' Libby

    12/11/2007 3:18:52 PM PST · by SmithL · 31 replies · 1,918+ views
    AP via SFGate ^ | 12/11/7 | LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON, (AP) -- President Bush granted pardons Tuesday to carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and an election-laws violator but not to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his vice president's former top aide who was convicted in the case of the leaked identity of a CIA operative. In all, Bush pardoned 29 convicts and reduced the prison sentence of one more in the end-of-the-year presidential tradition. Justice Department spokesman Erik Ablin said Bush has granted 142 pardons and commuted five sentences since taking office in 2001 — lagging far behind the pace set by most modern presidents. The list was issued with...