Thread: Forget Libby, Pardon Border Patrol Agents, Congressman Says

Forget Libby, Pardon Border Patrol Agents, GOP Congressman Says
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
July 03, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - With the commutation of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence, a Republican congressman is again calling on President Bush to pardon two border patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug smuggler.

Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) said in a letter to the president Tuesday that he is "deeply disappointed that U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean remain unjustly incarcerated for wounding a Mexican drug smuggler who brought 743 pounds of marijuana across our border."

Libby was sentenced to 30 months for obstruction and lying to investigators looking into who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media. Bush has said he will not rule out eventually pardoning Libby, who must still undergo two years' probation and pay $250,000 in fines.

"While you have spared Mr. Libby from serving even one day of his 'excessive' 30-month prison term, agents Ramos and Compean have already served 167 days of their 11 and 12-year prison sentences," Jones wrote.

"By attempting to apprehend an illegal alien drug smuggler, these agents were enforcing our laws, not breaking them," said Jones, who called on Bush to "listen to the American people and members of Congress who have called upon you to pardon these agents."

"By granting immunity and free health care to an illegal alien drug trafficker and allowing our law enforcement officers to languish in prison -- our government has told its citizens, and the world, that it does not care about protecting our borders or enforcing our laws," he added.

"I urge you to correct a true injustice by immediately pardoning these two law enforcement officers," Jones concluded.

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Bush will never do it. What most people don't understand is that Bush is hoping to take the Republican party down as this is the only group standing in the way of the amnesty he promised his good friend, Vincente Fox.

Bush threw the last election by withholding news that Rumsfeld had resigned, until after the election. He is hoping to throw the 2008 to the Democrats, so look for some of the most outlandish behavior imaginable to man in his last 1.5 years. He will do what he can to be certain the Democrats are a shoe-in in 2008. He is going back into the private sector and needs as much cheap labor as he can get.... and of course, that is his promise to his elite friends.

We have to fight and be sure everyone in the country knows the Democrats are not for our constitution, not for border security and willing to sell your soul to the highest bidders.