Mr. President: Order Pardons For the Agents
Jul 3rd 2007RavenBorder Security & Politics & Raven
If Bush can commute Scooter Libby’s sentence, he can PARDON the agents.
Two California congressmen, one of whom introduced legislation this year calling for a congressional pardon for two U.S. Border Patrol agents, say that if President Bush can commute the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, he can order pardons for the agents.
“If the president of the United States is going to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby, he should immediately accompany that with a pardon for Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and 2008 presidential candidate.
“If Scooter Libby is going to receive this treatment, and there very well could be a compelling reason for the president’s actions, agents Compean and Ramos should then be provided a full pardon,” said Mr. Hunter, whose bill has 100 co-sponsors. “Mr. President, pardon our Border Patrolmen.”
100 co-sponsers?? Come on Mr. President. Be a man here and pardon the two men who were simply doing their job and in the line of that work, got caught up in something bigger than anyone can understand. Many of us smell really foul play here- and it’s not coming from the agents. The agents are serving prison time which is excessive while the illegal drug smuggler is free. There’s a problem here and only Bush can solve it now.
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GM on 04 Jul 2007 at Wed 04 July 2007 17:19:02 #
Michael, I’ve just about given up hope that Bush will ever “do the right thing” for anyone. If he did pardon those two heros, imagine the outcry from LULAC and the ACLU… which automatically indicates that it is something he ought to do.