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There have been multiple statements made by the two agents. Those statements have not always been consistant. Their current story is that they saw weapons.

Absolutely wrong, Chucky.

Compean's first statement from March 18, 2006, the night he was arrested (and the first time he ever was ever questioned about the incident) said:

"He was pointing something shiny with his left hand.
It looked like a gun.
This is when I started shooting."

Telling me the first statement you know he made to investigators does not prove that he never made any contradictory statements.

The investigative report indicates he did make differing statements at different times, although I understand that the pro-pardon folks discount what other agents at the scene say the agents said to them at the time. But discounting the evidence isn't the same as saying there is no evidence.

I will happily concede that I have no first-hand knowledge of ANY of the statements made by the agents. Every statement I have seen are statements reported by other parties to the conversation, either investigators or other agents.

When we see the transcript, that will be the first time I think I'll have seen stuff directly from them and reported as written under controlled conditions. Although I feel relatively confident that investigators are properly reporting what the agents said to them.

I do apologize for my inaccurate statement. They are not saying they "saw weapons", that was an unfortunate shorthand, they are saying that they saw something that they thought could be a weapon.

BTW, your assertion that March 18 was the first time he was questioned about the incident is not accurate, as the record shows several people questioned him about aspects of the incident on the day of the incident, especially about the wound he had received.