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No. Bush pardoning 5 drug convictions after their sentences have been served is not relevant to "finding time to pardon the BP agents", unless you are pushing for them to be pardoned in 10 years after they are finished serving their sentences.

The pardons Bush signed went through a long process of justice department review after the convicts had completed their punishments, and Bush followed the recommendations of the justice department.

This isn't like the Clinton white house pardoning people he knew or who paid him. Bush pardons people who come up through the justice department.

Your statement is irrelevant to the facts, and is made solely to inflame the passions of people in the hopes they will join you in the lynching of Bush and Sutton and the freeing of convicted felons without regard to fact.

Note I didn't say "contrary to fact", I said without regard to fact.

Charles, I think that you are missing the point. I'll cede you that there is a process in place to screen pardons, but that process is accomplished by the Justice Dept. The DoJ is the department waging this prosecution against the USBP Agents. The questions are:

+ Why is a pardon [regardless of time served] deemed justifiable in the case of people found guilty of distributing cocaine, among other drugs, which takes planned behavior, and yet not justifiable for Agents who, after a 10 year [Ramos] career, perhaps made a bad choice in behavior over a 15-30 second period. Let's not forget that at the time of this incident Agent Ramos had been nominated as Agent of the Year!

+ Why is emphasis placed on the smuggler's veracity, proved to be questionable, over the Agent's veracity which is only probably questionable [understandably so considering the response of the prosecution]. Many of us are not arguing the guilt as much as the reason for the trial, the excessive charges levied, the undue influence on the various witnesses by the prosecutor. And most of all the serial abuse of power by Johnny Sutton who continues to hold others to a standard of justice that he refuses to hold his own department to.