Dianne Feinstein a Strange Ally in Border Patrol Fight

Washington, DC (TLS). Despite all of her faults, including the cloud of corruption hanging over her head in the scandal that sent millions of dollars of government contracts to her husband's companies, Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, has become an ally in the fight to free the two innocent Border Patrol agents.

As The Liberty Sphere reported earlier, the U.S. Senate opened an investigation into government corruption surrounding the Bush Administration's handling of the Ramos-Compean case--the two Border Patrol agents who were wrongfully prosecuted, convicted, sent to prison for over 10 years for shooting an illegal alien drug smuggler in the buttocks.

The U.S. House of Representatives repeatedly tried and failed to get cooperation from the Bush Administration in its investigation into the matter. House Republicans were at the forefront of the fight to free the two innocent men.

Yet the Administration continually rebuffed members of the President's own Party, and even lied to the Congressional committee charged with investigating the case.

Not surprisingly, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate seized the issue, sensing an opportunity for a good Bush-bash. Normally these exercises are nothing more than displays of political opportunism.

In this case, however, if the Democrats are acting for political purposes only, they picked an excellent case over which to give a much-deserved licking to President Bush and his Administration.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, of all people, sent a memo to the President calling for Agents Ramos and Compean to be freed from prison.

The Liberty Sphere heartily applauds Senator Feinstein for her stand.

This is one of the few cases where Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and Libertarians can agree and work together.

The Bush Administration was wrong to pursue this case against the Agents. It was wrong to defend Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted them. It was wrong to lie to Congress about the two falsely-accused Agents.

We warned the President that unless he cleans house on his own, fires Johnny Sutton, frees the Agents, and rids the DOJ and Homeland Security of those who lie to Congress, the Democrats in Congress will conduct a hostile investigation into this matter, which may result in not only a Democrat-controlled Congress in 2008, but the loss of the White House to the Democrats as well.

Senator Feinstein's memo to the President concerning the release of Ramos and Compean should be the least of Mr. Bush's worries. If Senate Democrats choose to pursue this matter further, exposing the corruption of the Sutton-DOJ-Homeland Security debacle in handling this case, the President may well find himself in a tanker-load of legal hot water.

The more digging the Democrats in the Senate do, the more I am sure the President wishes he had cooperated with Republicans in the House in their attempt to do the right thing.

The President now has political enemies breathing down his neck on the Border Patrol scandal. The Dianne Feinstein memo is only the beginning.