WND 7/14/2022
Biden vowed they would 'pay' for actions that were 'beyond embarrassment'The Border Patrol agents accused by President Biden and other officials of "whipping" migrants were exonerated last week in a Customs and Border Patrol Protection investigation, opening the door for them to sue public figures and media for defamation and denial of due process, according to constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley.
The agents, nevertheless, are still under suspension after the CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility concluded there was "no evidence" that "any agents struck — intentionally or otherwise — any migrant with their reins."
Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, told Just the News the videotape of the incident "undermines the good-faith basis for the claims, particularly after the first 24 hours."
In a column for The Hill last Friday, Turley said the federal investigation of the agents was "not about protecting migrants."
"It is about protecting a president," he wrote.
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told Fox News earlier this week that amid an overwhelming flood of illegal immigrants, "we're taking several agents out of the field on suspension for doing absolutely nothing wrong."
The administration, Judd said, "is looking to scapegoat them because President Biden was wrong."
More:
https://www.wnd.com/2022/07/border-agents-cleared-whipping-migrants-sue-defamation/
