This sounds like a repulsive piece of sophistry by one government lawyer in defense of another. McCarthy admits that the encounter was "so chaotic" that the other agents' testimony wasn't adequate to "get" Compean and Ramos, which was clearly Sutton's only priority. In such a high-adrenalin situation, apparently he would rather the agents stopped, held a meeting, and got out their law books, before deciding what to do. Obviously he has no experience of actually fighting crime in the real world.
He also says: "But did the indictment really have to be this severe? After all, the sentences are extremely harsh. Here, the agents have mainly themselves to blame. The government offered them very generous plea deals. Compean and Ramos spurned them."
Just maybe they spurned the deal because they felt they were innocent! This racket of bashing people because they will not cave in is a favorite of prosecutorial bullies.
Juries can be manipulated by prosecutors, so a jury verdict is no guarantee that justice was done. It's quite likely that Sutton was smarter and slicker than the agents' lawyers and the ordinary civilians on the jury. The idea that he was willing and able to pluck a big-time drug smuggler out of corrupt Mexico, solely in order to destroy a couple of agents whose conduct may or may not have been ideal, is frightening.
With the country flooded with drugs and illegal aliens, McCarthy wants us to believe that Sutton is an effective "law and order conservative?" Give me a break.
How about this quote: "Compean unleashed an incompetent fuselage"
Are we to assume that the Border Patrol is equipped with unmanned aircraft? Is that how agent Compean set off a "fuselage" at the smuggler? I suspect that the rest of McCarthy's tirade is just as inaccurate.
More little white lies to distort the truth from this sutton crew. It happens again and again and again. It destroys ALL of their credibility. Hope to dog that sutton never runs for office, he is consistently irresponsible and a self-promoter. He also has ZERO belief or understanding of justice. He is a moron.
Sutton is a dirtbag who has made NO MOVE to bust the doper on the one thousand pount marijuana violation. He's up to no good. He wants that dope in this country, that crime unpunished and only the agents to pay. He is the scum of the earth. Politically, he needs to pay the highest price and be booted from office. I hope people who care about justice are taking a good hard look at this guy, because dollars to donuts, he's doing all kinds of miscarriages of justice in his spare time.