Our Newest Weapon in the War on Terror: Administrative Leave

Oh, Osama's trembling in the cave now:

A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of being an illegal alien and smuggling other illegals into the United States faces a bail hearing today in federal court in San Diego.
Oscar Antonio Ortiz, 28, a Mexican citizen born in Tijuana, is charged with using a fraudulent birth certificate to obtain a job with the agency in 2001 and alien smuggling. The numbered certificate claimed he was born in Chicago, although authorities have since discovered it belonged to a man born a month earlier.
Mr. Ortiz, who was assigned at the agency's El Cajon field station 35 miles east of San Diego, pleaded not guilty to the felony charges during a hearing Friday. He was ordered held until today's bail review before U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony J. Battaglia.
Law-enforcement authorities said Mr. Ortiz and another unidentified Border Patrol agent became the targets of an undercover investigation after they were overheard on intercepted telephone conversations discussing on "many occasions" the smuggling of migrants into the United States through a border area near Tecate, which they patrolled.
Transcripts from the intercepted calls show the unidentified agent told a family member in May that he and Mr. Ortiz smuggled several dozen people into the country and had been paid fees ranging from $300 to $2,000 a person.
The intercepted calls, authorities said, came during an investigation by the North County Regional Gang Task Force in San Diego into a suspected drug ring.
Mr. Ortiz was arrested Thursday in Escondido, Calif., by agents from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General and placed on administrative leave.

Administrative leave?

The guy's an illegal alien who infiltrated the U.S. Border Patrol for the express purpose of smuggling fellow illegal aliens into this country, and these idiot bureaucrats place him on administrative leave.

We don't throw him in jail.

We don't deport him.

We put him on administrative leave.

When are the clowns at the Border Patrol and Homeland Security going to wake up and realize we're at war with people who would love to infiltrate our borders and our government institutions as a prelude to killing us?

If the moonbats want to impeach Bush, why don't they do so on grounds that he continues to tolerate such idiocy in departments Americans rely on to keep us safe from terrorists?