What a cozy little coincidence, a drug runner and a border patrol agent grow up together in Mexico, and the drug runner runs drugs across the border where his childhood buddy patrols.
Is it a remote possibility that this looks FUBAR because the Feds are working to keep something from being jeopardized; like a brewing sting operation against certain buddy-buddy BP agents, officials, and drug runners?
Just a passing thought, but it could explain why the Bush Administration's treatment of Ramos and Compean seems so weird; they're being kept on ice as a form of window dressing so that the real targets of the sting don't get spooked.