Reports on Senate hearing on Border Agent case

Reports from the Houston Chronicle, from the AP, from The Hill and from The Corner at NRO provide some highlights from Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the prosecution and sentencing of former border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.  Also available at this official site are links to the witnesses’ written testimony and an archived webcast of the hearing.

Some prior posts about the Border Agents case:

• The furor over border agents’ long sentences
• Equal justice or just the realities of ratting out?
• Using the border agent case as a catalyst for federal sentencing reform
• Harsh border agent sentences producing half-truths