Tick, Tick, Tick - Bush Administration Close To Explosive Meltdown

Like The Dubai Ports Deal, The Illegal Alien Problem Is A Ticking Bomb!

The longer President George W. Bush waits to remedy this injustice perpetrated by his two appointees, Sutton and Cardone, the more he convinces the public that the answer to our bafflement about this prosecution is that the Bush administration policy is to intimidate the Border Patrol from stopping the entry of illegal immigrants and illegal drugs.

With mounting bipartisan criticism from Republican congressmen and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) the Department of Justice has stepped up an unprecedented public relations campaign to defend its prosecution of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, now serving 11- and 12-year prison terms. But new facts keep emerging to prove that this prosecution was a gross injustice.CNN judicial expert Jeffrey Toobin described it as "one of the most unusual prosecutions I've ever seen ... I am baffled why this case was brought."

The government prosecuted Ramos and Compean criminally for acts that called only for an administrative reprimand, based the case on the testimony of an admitted drug smuggler brought back from Mexico and induced to testify by a grant of immunity, withheld crucial evidence from the jury, used the wrong law (that carries a mandatory additional 10-year sentence), and now won't release the transcript of the trial without which the border guards cannot appeal. The smuggler's reward for his testimony was immunity, U.S. medical treatment, and a government-issued border pass.

... Phyllis Schlafly sums up the border patrol problem very nicely.