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Maybe that’ll teach those ICE agents to mess around with CIA drug smugglers.
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If this were a TV mystery, it would turn out that the prosecutor was actually taking bug buck$ under the table for “keeping things cool” for the smugglers.
I don’t think the Border Patrol agents should be in jail, but having said that, I do not see the relevance of whether the witness lied about being a repeat drug importer. As I understand it, the principle under which they were convicted was that law enforcement officers are not justified in using potentially deadly force against someone who is fleeing from them, but only to protect themselves and others from probable use of force by the suspect. Personally, I disagree with that principle and think that law enforcement officers should be able to use force to prevent a suspect from escaping, but that’s not the law as it currently stands. If it was established that they shot a fleeing suspect, it isn’t really relevant whether the suspect claimed to be a first time offender when he was actually a career criminal. It impeaches the suspect as a witness, but I’m assuming the DA had independent evidence that they had shot at someone who posed no danger.
Well, obviously, we have to believe this drug smuggler and disbelieve the other drug smuggler.
How does this impact the cover up of the shooting? Never mind.
The corrupt-to-the-core Bush Justice Department continues its dirty work with brazen arrogance and impunity.