[FOXFANVOX]

Yes, you are correct, it was Chris Sanchez not Renee. These names are all starting to blend together in my mind, and when the names are almost the same it creates a fog! Nevertheless, I think if Chris Sanchez had the evidence and OAD together, it taints the evidence.

You are probably correct about the various missions of the various alphabet soup departments. So much for Homeland Security simplifying everything, eh? But, I question why the investigation did not pursue the cellphone in the van for their investigation. They made a big deal of the chase and that Ramos may have exceeded the speed limit and of Ramos' transmissions on his car radio. One would hope that they would have also investigated cellphone records of the smuggler; unless of course that would have weakened their case.

If we have such great relations with Mexico and knew the guy in question was OAD, why did they not have him extradited, convict him and then offer him a reduced sentence for his testimony. The immunity [perhaps applied twice?], the medical care, the lawsuit [$5 million!] and now rumored citizenship? Osama Bin Ladin must be thinking about such a deal with great envy.

Thank you for your annotations. I am trying to read without taking notes in order to plow thru the transcript sooner, but it is starting to blur. I hope to go back later and extract relevant comments. But, like Britney, I may end up in rehab before I am done. 8)

[calcowgirl]

It would help if I got those annotations right. I accidentally wrote Vol 5, instead of Vol 6. #238 should have read: One tidbit I read in Rene Sanchez's testimony is that he actually gave Chris Sanchez OAD's telephone number the first time he was talked to him to tell him about the alleged shooting incident. I guess a telephone number wasn't enough for Sutton to follow up on the smuggling angle. (Vol 6, p. 236-37)