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Alert: A handful of lawmakers want President George W. Bush to commute the sentences of two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a now convicted drug smuggler and covering it up.
The House members said Thursday Bush should commute the sentence of the two men before he leaves office to show his concern for law enforcement officers and the danger of their jobs. They asked the Justice Department to recommend the agents' cases to Bush.
As Bush's presidency ends, a close watch is being kept on who he will get pardons or clemency, including whether he'll issue pardons to anyone who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. The lawmakers pushing for the pardon of the Border Patrol agents say his action on their plea will be a barometer for other pardons.
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were sentenced to 11 years and 12 years, respectively, after being convicted in 2006 of shooting now-convicted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila of Mexico and trying to cover up the incident.
A federal judge in El Paso, Texas, re-sentenced the two this month to the same jail terms after an appeals court threw out one of the charges against each of them, who have been in prison for two years.
"If you can't do it for Ramos and Compean, how can you do it for any one on that list?" said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.
A DOJ spokeswoman could not immediately confirm that an attorney had filed an application for Ramos and Compean's sentences to be commuted.
Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston, said lawmakers will pressure President-elect Barack Obama to show leniency to the agents if Bush does not.
Other lawmakers who had signed a letter to the Justice Department's pardon attorney by Thursday morning are Republican Reps. William Delahunt, D-Mass. and Ted Poe of Texas; Republicans Dana Rohrbacher, Howard McKeon and Ed Royce of California and Walter Jones and Sue Myrick of North Carolina. (Houston Chronicle)
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