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Bush Commutes Sentences of Ex-Agents

 

Published 1/20/2009 by Dan Eggen and Carrie Johnson at Wash Post Obama Administration

Reserving his last acts of clemency for his final full day in office, President Bush yesterday commuted the sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions in 2006 for shooting a Mexican drug dealer sparked a passionate debate over the rights of illegal immigrants. (link)

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