A bad commute?

Submitted by bkrueger on July 3, 2007 - 12:56pm.
Tags: | | | | | |

U.S. Rep. Walter Jones says President Bush commuted the sentence of the wrong guy.

Bush’s decision to commute the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, prompted Jones to fire off a letter asking Bush to pardon U.S. border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who have been imprisoned for their shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler, reports Rob Christensen.

"While you have spared Mr. Libby from serving even one day of his 'excessive' 30-month prision term, agents Ramos and Compean have already served 167 days of their 11 and 12-year prison sentences," writes Jones, a Republican from Farmville.

"By attempting to apprehend an illegal alien drug smuggler, these agents were enforcing our laws, not breaking them."

Correction: An earlier version of this post misstated one of the sentences. 

You must be logged in to post a comment on this blog. If you already have an N&O online user account, click here to log in. Otherwise, click here to register (it's free!).

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Re: A bad commute?

Submitted by blculbre on July 3, 2007 - 1:37pm.

While he may be trying to score some political points, the Congressman may be on to something...

» login to post comments