Snow seeks 'cooler heads' in border guards dispute

Presidential spokesman says Ramos, Compean transcripts ready soon
Posted: February 13, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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White House spokesman Tony Snow says he wants "cooler heads" to prevail and "facts" to be presented in the flaring dispute over the sentences imposed on two former U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Snow was responding to a question from WND correspondent Les Kinsolving at the daily White House press briefing yesterday.

Kinsolving asked: "Sen. (Dianne) Feinstein has been authorized by Judiciary Committee Chairman (Patrick) Leahy to lead a Senate investigation of the case of former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos, who was assaulted by four other inmates in the federal prison in Yazoo City, Miss., about which Sen. Feinstein said this – and this is a quote – 'I urge the committee to look into why these agents are not being protected in the federal prison system. It is not hard to predict that two federal agents would be targeted in a prison population.'

"And my question, what is the president's reaction to this upcoming investigation and Republican Congressman (Dana) Rohrabacher's warning of 'impeachment talk' if either of these agents is killed," he asked.