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Thread #117906   Message #2544595
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
20-Jan-09 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush pardons Border Patrol agents
Subject: RE: BS: Bush pardons Border Patrol agents
"Their job was to apprehend illegal immigrants; they failed to do that, having shot huim(sic) dead instead."

Factually untrue. They shot him, a drug smuggler, while he was fleeing. He was wounded and captured. The agents were not found guilty of shooting him, but of covering up the facts of the shooting in their report. The drug runner was given immunity from prosecution for his alleged crime to testify against the agents.

The final irony: after testifying against Ramos and Campeon, the freakin' perp was later arrested doing it all over again.

Anyhow, Pres. Bush commuted the sentences to time served, about two years. He did not pardon them, which would have made the whole thing go away for them.

I think justice has been served in this case,