cnsnews.com - 11/19/2008
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(CNSNews.com) In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is mulling whether to recommend a commutation for the two former Border Patrol agents jailed for more than a decade each for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks. The case is now before the ...
faustasblog.com - 11/25/2008
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Bush pardons 14 individuals Outgoing president also commutes
the prison sentence of 2 others President George W.
Bush has granted pardons to 14 individuals and commuted the prison sentences of two others, including a rapper, convicted of misdeeds ...
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Latest pardon doesn’t include Ramos and Compean
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Ramos and Compean Under Review for Pardon
Tammy Bruce —
Hero border agents Ramos and Compean
By pardoning our two border patrol agents, George W. Bush has an opportunity here to prove himself as something other than a complete and rank failure when it comes to domestic policy. Let's pray he does the right thing here.
Ramos, Compean Commutation under Review by U.S. Pardon Attorney
In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is mulling whether to recommend a commutation for the two former Border Patrol agents jailed for more than a decade each for ...
Who will get the Bush pardons?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Bush waited until now to take action. Bush commuted Libby’s sentence for obstruction of justice and perjury but refused to pardon him outright, stating that the appeals process should determine the justice of the conviction. Bush doesn’t have to get a formal request from Libby to issue him a full pardon, but it seems unlikely that he would act without such a request, and the time has grown short to initiate one. Johnson doesn’t mention two other big names in clemency speculation: Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean . The two Border Patrol agents were convicted for the discharge ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/25/2008 — The Presidential pardon power is just hanging out there begging to be abused and so of course you get stuff like this :
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Presidential Pardon Season
swampland.blogs.time.com 11/24/2008 — Yes, it's that time again. The Washington Post tells us today:
Among those seeking presidential action are former junk-bond salesman Michael Milken, who hired former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, one of the nation's most prominent GOP ...
Obama picks Daschle as health secretary: CNN —
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