Is there a contest for kooky posts going on here at FR that I don't know anything about?
Again, that is NOT THE ISSUE! The issue is that:
1) They failed to report the incident
2) The ACTIVELY OBSTRUCTED the investigation
3) They lied about the incident ocurring in the first place
If they had walked into their superior's office and said: "Sarge, we were confronted by an armed person who threatened us and then fled on foot, leaving a van behind with 750 lbs of dope. We fired when he menaced us, and we think we may have shot him in the a_s." If they had done that, NOTHING aside from maybe some minor investigation re: whether or not who fired first.
As it was, they attempted to defraud the courts and the investigative process. Although they don't deserve 10 years in prison imo, they are not the innocent and true blue defenders of God and our sovereign nation that the apoplectics here keep bellowing about. There is NO reason for spinning this as some kind of treasonous abandonment of border patrol officers if you are not alread carrying a huge anti hispanic sentiment on your back to begin with.
Oh, and by the way, I think it was also despicable to grant amnesty and bring a drug dealer back across the border to testify in the trial. That said, it doesn't excuse these two.