Nothing like waiting until the last minute. President Bush has commuted the decade-long prison sentences of U.S. Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean. Instead of spending the next ten years in prison, the two former agents should be released from prison by the end of this March.
A full pardon would have been nice, but I'll take a commutation. I'm sure the agents and their families will also. Did Ramos and Compean do wrong? Yes - they didn't report their shooting in the buttocks of a fleeing Mexican drug runner and they picked up some shell casings. Did they deserve 12 years in prison for doing this? Absolutely not. President Bush agreed. This case was especially galling in that the federal prosecutor in the case actually gave the drug runner immunity so he could testify against the agents, and while the case against the two agents was ongoing, the drug runner got popped again for running drugs across our border.
President Bush was mealy-mouthed to the very end, but ultimately, he did the right thing.
Good Day to You, Sir
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
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