This from the Washington Times.
A Senate committee will hold a long-promised hearing Tuesday into the prosecution of two U.S. Border Patrol agents sentenced to lengthy prison terms for shooting a suspected drug smuggler in the buttocks as he fled back into Mexico.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who raised questions about the prosecutions in February, will preside over the Judiciary Committee hearing. She is chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, technology and homeland security.
“Border Patrol agents have a difficult and often dangerous job in guarding our nation’s borders,” she said in letters to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. “I believe that aggressive prosecution of Border Patrol agents has a chilling effect on their ability to carry out their duties and on the morale of all agents.
“I am extremely concerned about how this case continues to unfold,” she said.
I rightly suspect that politics may be her motive to jump on the band wagon. Glad to get a well deserved hearing.
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Posted on July 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
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