Posted on 11/18/2007 2:24:12 PM PST by dit_xi
Top conservatives have joined ranking House leaders in their bid to pressure the president to pardon two jailed El Paso Border Patrol agents for the nonfatal shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler in 2005.
In a letter to be delivered tomorrow to the White House, 31 major conservative petitioners joined a campaign being led by Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and presidential candidate, to ask President Bush to pardon Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean before Thanksgiving.
The letter comes on the heels of the arrest of admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila on charges of trafficking marijuana while he was profiting from the federal-immunity deal as the star witness in the shooting case against the agents.
"History has proven that the mere words and deeds of a president can change the course of history and profoundly affect both the tone and direction of the nation"s moral character for generations to come," said the letter signed by 31 petitioners, mostly from Christian conservative groups and national security organizations.
"The impact of a president"s silence can have the same dramatic and devastating results. That is why we find your continued silence on the issue of a presidential pardon for Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean of great concern," it said.
...Aldrete-Davila has entered hospitals in El Paso under federal escort since the October 2006 sentencing of the former agents, eyewitnesses close to the case told The Washington Times.
On Nov. 8, Mr. Aldrete-Davila was at a hospital in El Paso for a pre-operative appointment for surgery, the eyewitness source said. That source and other El Paso sources have told The Times that the U.S. government has been paying for his medical bills.
Federal authorities, however, denied that Mr. Aldrete-Davila had entered the U.S. under federal escort several times for medical treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Wow! That is some real seething stuff comin' off your keyboard. Do you blame him for killing your cat, or something?
As the Prime Minister says at "question time" in the British Parliament: "I refer you to my previous reply" (#97).
The judge covered up the information. The lawyer for the government requested it, but does not get to make the decision.
A “crime” for which, if true, would warrant administrative diciplinary action not jail time.
If that is the case, the appeal will be successful.
Good Night, Sir. May God Bless You and Yours. Thank You for Your Service to Protecting the Freedoms of Our Nation. God looks after His Warriors.
These two were shafted. And this will forever be a stain on the bush administration's record. It's beyond pathetic to ask someone to face the responsibility and danger of such a job and then prosecute them for doing so. And there is absolutely ZERO excuse for any conservative to defend it.
Thinking or even knowing they will win theirr appeals does not make jail terms for law enforcement any easier.
Remember who enacted the law under which they were prosecuted?.... I haven’t heard a single elected official come forward to begin the process of amending the law they enacted that allowed this to happen. I have no use for rogue LEOs period. Sorry. LEOs have a tough job to do but going outside the law, rules of operation/procedure, etc aren’t things I respect in one of them.
Off topic but how did you like the outcome down in Homestead early this evening?.... I had a friend that was 84 that passed away in Aug. and he was an ardent JJ fan. I only wish he could have been able to see the win today.
And who says they are rogue LEOs? You? Johnny Sutton? Johnny Sutton is a proven liar. On what do you base your opinion, his prosecution? Their illegally obtained convictions? Your best statement to date was they did not report the incident. You're willing to label them as rogue and send them to prison based on that?
Ok...who is Johnny Sutton ?...Turns out he is just another joined at the hip Bush croney..in other words- an incompetent nincompoop of which POTUS seems to have appointed a few—such as: Secretary of the Navy-Donald C.Winter, former CEO FATCAT of Northrup-Grummon with ties to Murtha- mentioned here the other night in re the Haditha Trial thread...
Here is the Bio and the URL for Sutton’s bio from Wikipedia...his official Bio doesn’t spell out the Tx-Bush-Cheney-Gonzales connection as does the Wiki article..
[edit] Biography
Sutton graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in International Business in 1983 and then earned a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Texas School of Law in 1987. He then worked as a criminal trial prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Houston. From 1995-2000, Sutton worked for then Governor Bush under Alberto Gonzales, then the governor’s general counsel, as the Criminal Justice Policy Director. With the election of President Bush, he worked with Gonzales and became coordinator for the Bush-Cheney transition team assigned to the Department of Justice where he served as Associate Deputy Attorney General. Bush nominated him to his current position on October 25, 2001, and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate.
On March 28, 2006 Gonzales named Sutton Chair of the Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Sutton
Also- yes i feel the Border Patrol agents should be Pardoned and i also wonder why this thread has turned into a Hunter for President semi-thread...read the title article, it says to Pardon the Agents, not ‘elect Hunter’ or Fred or Bozo...
You have your opinion and I have mine regardless of whether you want to let me exercise that right. Honest LEOs follow the law and rules of procedure/operations and don’t try to hide their actions. Those that will break the law, circumvent the rules they are to follow don’t deserve to be on the force.
We have a legal process in this country and it’s in the appeals stage now for these two convicted felons. Should the jury verdicts be overturned for whatever reason then the process will have played its role just as if the appeals are denied. Until then they are convicted felons. If a pardon is granted then that is within the system also. Just not something I think should happen until the appellate process is complete.
I’ll go one step further and guess that the message from POTUS to Cheney-to Gonzales-to Sutton- was to go light on the illegals and try and show them the US is treating them ‘fairly’....Yeah, by screwing to good BP Agents...all in order to secure the Hispanic vote...and all down the chain, it’s like ‘ Well son, that’s how politics works’...Oh yeah...and screw you to, sirs !
Gonzales is gone, Sutton should go next-immediately
If there is any truth to this, it would be in the appeal and the appeal would be successful.
Sutton is not a proven liar. R/C are not “proven” guilty, except beyond a reasonable doubt. But that is a lot more “proven” than the claims about Sutton.
If Sutton were proven a liar, he would be fired or face prosecution, as was Nifong.
It would be funny if it wasn’t sad, people posting to blogs who nonetheless think they have the superior intellect to declare incompetent a man who was the CEO of one of the top 4 defense companies in our country, and who serves as the Secretary of the Naval forces of the strongest country in the world.
These obviously outstanding blog posters should consider being CEOs of their own major corporations, so great they must be.
Yep, the leader of the free world is sitting around thinking “Let’s find a couple of good BP agents and frame them so we can show illegals how much we love them. Let’s set them up, get them to shoot their guns at an unarmed man, and cover it up, so we can prosecute them and throw them in jail.”
“After all, what else to I have to do, run a country of 300 million people, complete with two wars and the constant threat of terror attack?”
A complete and total lie.
I’ll stand by my words...
As for the leader of a free country, when one or two of his political appointees makes very serious errors affecting the lives of career Marine Officers and enlisted men, and of good Law Enforcement officials, yes i will say something is wrong...You don’t right a wrong by sitting idly by and saying let the next guy do it...Something is wrong here and it needs correcting...or, as the radio guy says : Wake UP America !
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