This ruse is a page from the Johnny Sutton play book. Delay and obfuscate! This President has the power [but not the will] to instantly forgive these two agents with a pardon, or barring that a commutation.
Johnny Sutton is a Bush buddy and the major reason that Ramos and Compean are in jail serving an excessive sentence. Bush bears responsibility for this miscarriage of justice and yet he treats it as if it is just another administrative request of no consequence. Bush showed his elitism when he commuted pal Libby but chose to ignore the pleas of Congress and the people to free Ramos and Compean.
Bush ran on a platform of compassionate conservatism. He should have qualified that by saying he was only compassionate with those who were in the Bush circle.
If Bush had not already pardoned some druggies [and other miscreants] his hard nosed stand might be defensible. But, he has already pardoned criminals, so not to pardon two US Border Agents who stopped a drug smuggler and were only convicted because the drug smuggler was given amnesty to testify against agents, is unconscionable.
And if Bush does not know the new evidence in this case, that the drug dealer has been caught carrying in several loads AFTER the one where he was shot in the a$$ then he is lying. Enough good people have gone out of their way to inform Bush. He tells his spokesmen to feign utter ignorance about the case but it’s BS. He knows.
The jury was deliberately kept in the dark about the ONE “WITNESS” — the illegal alien drug dealer — having used his special full immunity / border crossing pass given to him that he might testify here, to carry more loads of marijuana across the border. That is by itself enough grounds for a mistrial.
And this one louse SAID he himself was unarmed. What are the chances that a Mexican mafia drug carrier isn’t packing when he takes vanloads of pot worth thousands over the border? Even his own MOTHER said he always carries a weapon. And Sutton and every news broadcast still says they shot at an unarmed man.
This is very telling about George Bush. I’m glad he is leaving. (Of course, I am not thrilled about any of his potential replacements...)