Republicans Unleash Rage at Bush Over Border Patrol Debacle

Washington, DC (TLS). When news reached members of Congress that one of the Border Patrol Agents who had been falsely charged and imprisoned had been beaten, and that the beating occurred in a facility where the government promised he would not be, Republicans went ballistic. Rarely has such stinging rhetoric been used against a sitting President by members of his own Party.

The Republicans have good reason to be angry. The government admitted it lied to convict the two men. The government lied to the court. The government lied to Congress. Two innocent men were sent to prison, supposedly to a minimum security facility where they would not be kept among the general prison population. These promises were made by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton.

Yet one of the men wound up in a medium-security federal penitentiary in Mississippi among the general prison population. The very day he arrived he was beaten to within an inch of his life.

This is when the verbal carnage began to fly. As news of the beating reached Congressional Republicans, who have been calling for the men to receive a Presidential pardon, they immediately vented their anger toward the White House. One Republican lawmaker stated that he was so angry with President Bush that he didn't know what to do. Another threatened impeachment hearings against the President.

My friends, this is a story that is not going away, for the corruption it represents reaches the very highest levels of government, and now members of the President's own party are turning against him.

Read the full account of Republican outrage here:
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