Dana Rhorbacher was one, Duncan Hunter who I love as a congressman another, border bandit who's sadly left Washington after his failed presidential and he will be missed dearly, one Tom Tancredo, Homeland security hawk Peter King in New York, even liberal Diane Feinstein kicked in for the cause as well and Steve King of Iowa round out the main players.
Read more about it here below from WorldNetDaily's late edition tonight on the eve of the saddest day in American history, as an illegal alien Usurper is inaugurated unconstitutionally as our 44th president tommorow and the country's death spiral accelerates to mach 1 speed. /
This pic was from a Rhorabacher rally early on in this fiasco/Congressmen lobbied for agents at 11th hour:
WorldNetDaily: "Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle lobbied White House counsel and President Bush personally on behalf of border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean in a series phone calls and face-to-face conversations that continued through the 11th hour of the administration, WND has learned.
A key meeting in the lobbying effort leading up to President Bush's decision to commute the sentences was an hour-long phone conversation Jan. 9 orchestrated by Rep Steve King, R-Iowa.
The conference call included Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, who was recruited by King because of his extensive career as a judge and prosecutor in Texas.
Participating for the White House were Kenneth Lee, legal counsel assigned to review recommendations from the Department of Justice Pardon Attorney, and Jeff Lungren, special assistant to the president.
Ramos and Compean have been in solitary confinement in federal prison since Jan. 17, 2007, serving 11 and 12 years respectively for a 2005 incident in Fabens, Texas, during in which they fired on a drug smuggler as he fled back into Mexico after bringing 750 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. near Fabens, Texas.King and Poe argued the mandatory minimum 10-year sentence Ramos and Compean were given under U.S. Code Section 924 (c) was severe.
WND has learned a key final-hours strategy coordinated by many of Ramos and Compean's congressional supporters was to defuse attacks on Johnny Sutton, the El Paso U.S. Attorney whose office conducted the prosecution. The lawmakers, instead, focused attention instead on the unfair nature of the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence.
Last week, 31 of the 34 current members of the Texas congressional delegation, including both senators, sent a letter to President Bush asking for him to commute the prison sentences.
As WND reported last week, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., issued a press statement detailing several statements in which Sutton himself expressed concerns that the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence was severe. The trial prosecutor in Sutton's office, Debra Kanof, decided to charge Ramos and Compean under 924 (c) after the agents rejected her plea bargaining offers.
Sutton served as the criminal justice policy director for then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush from 1995 to 2000.
skip ahead (complete article here)WND previously reported Aldrete-Davila lied at trial. He actually had a valid Mexican drivers license the day he committed the offense involving Ramos and Compean.
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