Drug dealers' pardons left unexplained

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WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Drug dealers' pardons left unexplained
Mercy also granted to carjackers, but not border agents defending U.S.

Posted: December 14, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The White House has left unexplained the president's decisions to grant pardons to drug dealers, carjackers, thieves and a moonshiner, but deny the same mercy to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents each serving more than a decade in prison for shooting at a fleeing drug smuggler.

The issue arose during a news briefing at the White House, held by Dana Perino, the president's spokeswoman.

"Both Republicans and the Democrat Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee have now deplored the president's pardoning of drug dealers and carjackers while refusing to pardon two U.S. Border Patrol agents who shot a Mexican drug smuggler who disobeyed their order to stop…" asked WND's correspondent at the White House, Les Kinsolving.

"I answered this question," said Perino.

"And my question," said Kinsolving.

"I answered this question," said Perino.

"Wait a minute, I haven't asked it," Kinsolving said.

"I'm sure it's the same one," Perino responded.

"Would the White House like to respond to Chairman Delahunt, as well as Congressmen Hunter and Rohrabacher, or will you stiff-arm them with a 'no comment'?" he asked.

"What I'll do is refer you to the briefing on Monday when Kathleen asked the same question," Perino said.

"Not exactly the same," Kinsolving said.

Perino's response earlier to questions about pardons, referencing another case, was, "We don't speculate on any possible pardons."

As WND reported earlier, the White House has released its list of 29 pardons granted traditionally around Christmas time, and they included carjackers, drug dealers, thieves and a moonshiner.

But not Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of firing their guns at a fleeing drug smuggler while they were protecting the integrity of the U.S. border with Mexico.

However, Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., has launched a campaign to assemble a House resolution urging Bush to provide those pardons, and he says more than two dozen members already have signed on as sponsors.

"I am completely confident we will be able to pass a bipartisan resolution that includes support from the right and the left," Delahunt said. He said he expects action soon after Congress reconvenes after the Christmas break.k

"Members in the House feel strongly the excessively long sentences Ramos and Compean are serving is a miscarriage of justice," he explained. "We have strong bipartisan agreement in the House that President Bush should immediately commute the sentences of Ramos and Compean to the time they have already served."

Ramos and Compean are serving 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively, for shooting after fleeing drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila in an incident on the Texas border with Mexico on Feb. 17, 2005.

Delahunt objected strongly to the mandatory minimum 10-year sentence Ramos and Compean are serving under 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c), a law Congress passed to increase the prison terms of federal felons, including bank robbers, who carried a weapon in the commission of their crimes.

"It just isn't right, period," Delahunt said. "In this case there is bipartisan agreement in the House that Ramos and Compean have already served enough time."

As WND reported, their case already is on appeal, and a ruling from the 5th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals is expected within weeks.

In another question, Kinsolving asked about the reports of drug use coming from Sen. Barack Obama's past.

"Sen. Clinton's national co-chairman Bill Shaheen has just announced that Republicans will work hard to discover new aspects of Sen. Obama's youthful drug problems, which were repeatedly detailed by Shaheen. And my question: Since Clinton's spokeswoman Kathleen Strand announced that Shaheen's comments were not authorized or condoned by the campaign in any way, does the head of the Republican Party wonder why there were no reports of Shaheen being fired for this smear of Republicans and Senator Obama?"

"The president is not following the 2008 campaign that closely," Perino said.

Hours after the news briefing, Clinton officials also announced they had accepted Shaheen's resignation.

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Congress will act after their Christmas break!  While Ramos and Compean spend Congress' Christmas break behind bars.  How magnanamous of them.

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I have Nothing good to say bout Congress or our president . Scooter Libby was a real kick in the butt to me

 

 

vote NO to CFR

Tom Tancredo 2008 .fine American 

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With Bush's logic or unpatriotic theme, he just may as well have pardoned that drug dealer (whose now in custody) that was shot by the two agents.  I try not to write to Bush anymore, I can't find anything nice to say.  And the fact that we're realizing just how DUPED we are regarding affairs of our Govt. (both parties included) I'm not giving up or giving in.  I just think we all need to very cautious when writing any of our elected officials.  The Patriot Act may actually be intended to SPY on Americas true PATRIOTS-folks like YOU AND ME!!!!!  I do know, this whole thing STINKS, and BUSH is just as guilty for his FAILURE to PROTECT US, as that drug smuggler is for smuggling drugs in here in the first place.

I do need to add to my signature line: "HELP STAMP OUT THE ACLU!!!"  Their tag line should read:MINORITY RULES!!!

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This is a crime inself to keep these two men behind bars while our officials go on vacation and enjoy themselves.  These two men deserve to spend Christmas with their families.  I think the government owes them for the time they had to spend there.

We keep faxing through Grassfire and I don't think they pay any attention to them.  We the people for the people BS. 

Well, they are about to get a whole lot more faxes through Grassfire, if they haven't already, because last Saturday night on America's Most Wanted John Walsh profiled the whole scandalous mess, stating that "an injustice has been done in the case of Border Agents Ramos and Compean and Deputy Hernandez." 

Hi!   There is another New Bill in the House of Representatives,  Titled H.CON.RES.267, that is Calling on the President to commute the sentences of United States Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean to time served. There have already been 69 Members of the U.S Congress, who have signed on to this Bill. I am of course, Totally 100% for this very important House Bill. Here is the Link to this very Important House Bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HC00267:@@@P

Hi Again!  Well, It looks like now Unfortunately,  that Mr. George W. Bush is Not going to Completely Commute the Prison Sentences of wrongly Prosecuted, wrongly Convicted, and Wrongly Imprisoned former Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean before Christmas Day.  Mr. George W. Bush is a big and a huge Grinch and a Major and a Monumental Jerk for not doing this yet.   I do Not consider George W. Bush my President, any longer and any more.