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Bush's Last Day: A pardon to please the nativist wingnuts of the GOP
Crooks and Liars —
... were too harsh. Apparently "just doing your job" is now the handy Conservative Get Out of Jail Free card. Certainly that's been Bush's justification for his own lawbreaking, and so it makes a certain sense that he would apply it now. But there was never any excuse for these Border Patrol agents' behavior. They not only clearly abused their police powers, but committed even further crimes in trying to cover it up. The most thorough evisceration of the Ramos/Compean martyr myth was Alex Koppelman's superb Salon piece of last year: At trial in the federal courthouse in El Paso, ...
The Ramos and Compean Commutation And Mandatory Minimums
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... The facts of the case are pretty clear, much more clear one might expect. The two agents shot a fleeing Mexican drug smuggler in the butt and tried to cover it up. They did not know, at the time of the shooting, that the smuggler was a drug smuggler; ...
Sean Hannity helps Jerome Corsi promote his black-helicopter 'New World Order' conspiracy theories
Orcinus —
... The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada which ostensibly exposed secret plans to form a "North American Union" by combining the three countries into one. He evidently folds that theory into his latest book. Then he wrote last year's The Obama Nation (get it? Abomination/Obama Nation?) which was the usual farrago of distortions, fabrications, and outright falsehoods we've come to expect from him. In between, he helped drum up media interest in the phony Ramos/Compean case. There are mainstream conservatives ...
WND conspiracist's bogus claim: Hasan advised Obama's transition team
Crooks and Liars —
... The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada which ostensibly exposed secret plans to form a "North American Union" by combining the three countries into one. He evidently folds that theory into his latest book.
Then he wrote last year's The Obama Nation (get it? Abomination/Obama Nation?) which was the usual farrago of distortions, fabrications, and outright falsehoods we've come to expect from him. In between, he helped drum up media interest in the phony Ramos/Compean case.
There are mainstream conservatives ...
