Posted on 02/07/2007 6:28:28 AM PST by American Cabalist
Congressman John Culberson (R-TX) announced today in Houston, TX that DHS-Inspector General Richard Skinner admitted that his deputy inspectors Lisa Redman and James Taylor as well as DHS congressional liaison Tamara Faulkner LIED to members of Congress about statements that are foundational to the prosecution's case against Border Patrol agents Compean and Ramos.
The DHS inspectors claimed that the Border Patrol agents were "rogue cops" and that they had very damning sworn statements to that effect:
1. They knew that he was unarmed.
2. They knew that he was not a threat to them.
3. That they had said that morning that they were going to "go out and shoot them some Mexicans."
Furthermore, the DHS officials promised Congress that they would produce those sworn statements for Congressional review. That was four and a half months ago. Since then, DHS has stalled and obfuscated every time the Congressional members wrote letters or made phone calls to collect those statements.
All three of those statements have now been proven as false. DHS-IG Skinner admitted yesterday that his deputies lied to Congress and that those sworn statements do not exist and that Congress had been "misled".
Culberson has concluded that DHS deliberately lied to Congress and gave them false information in order to "throw them off the scent" of their investigation into the Border Patrol case. He said this is indicative of a large-scale cover-up inside of DHS, the Department of Justice, and the entire prosecution against Compean and Ramos. He and other Congressman will be announcing today their demand for a full investigation into the DHS cover-up and the immediate resignations of the DHS officials involved.
I'll have more updates within a few hours, which I'll post here, including the audio of John Culberson's announcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at euphoricreality.com ...
I agree.
The FReepers who sided with the 2-time, caught-red-handed drug runner, and view his coerced testimony as gospel will be along soon to debunk this new info.
My only hope is this is a huge plan to bust up BP corruption in a roundabout way that is indecipherable to we ulcerated peoples.
Why is Tony Snow pleading? Can't he just tell us what's in the transcript? He's a SPOKEsman, right? So, SPEAK, Tony!
In the meantime, resignation of anyone in the DOJ who's implicated in covering up wrongdoing is a good first step.
Yep. I only took 8 posts for someone to post a refutation that ignores the FACTS of this article as well as his OWN CALL TO THINK ABOUT THEM.
What is so hard to understand about people lying to get a conviction?
Because no ever lies in the court system. /S
How does one ping L. Ingraham......
What does the testimony to congress have to do with the trial? Was that info entered as evidence?
Bob, the prosecution built it's case around the LIE that these two BP agents were rogue cops and deliberately and willfully broke the law in the pursuit of an illegal alien. DHS was the investigating authority for this entire case, and their findings were used against the BP agents in court - as was their testimony. Conversely, testimony was NOT ALLLOWED that would expose the "illegal alien" as a criminal drug smuggler. Nor was testimony allowed that showed the BP agents as stellar cops (previous citations and awards and such)
As well - and I can't believe I have to point this out to you - the fact that DHS lied to Congress indicates a large-scale cover-up. DHS did not want the Congressmen to go any further in their questioning of the case. In fact, many Congressmen and Senators did just that - they stopped looking into it. That was exactly the purpose of the LIES.
At least 400 of those replies came in because the article was initially posted to 'news'. Then suddenly it got changed to general/chat and the topic changed to 'conspiracy'. Notice that this article itself has now been moved to general/chat.
You're right. Almost a month ago Euphoric Reality broke the news that the AZ National Guard had encountered a fully armed paramilitary force and FR moved it from News to Conspiracy. Then three weeks later, the MSM finally picks it up (without attribution, of course) and it was reposted everywhere as Breaking News. Unfortunately, FR has always tried to bury stuff like that - erasing entire threads and moving border news into the back forty. Maybe I'll get banned now for saying so. Wouldn't that be ironic?
Many lawmakers have been calling for Bush to grant the pardon, which would free the two former agents from prison.
"There's a procedure in place and what I told members of Congress who have written me or called, is 'just look at the case. Look at the facts in the case,'" Bush told FOX News' Neil Cavuto. "People need to understand why these folks were sent to trial and why a jury of their peers convicted them."
Then just tell us, W!
"These guys did very serious crimes and once anybody who knows all the facts of this case — the fact that they shot at an unarmed guy 15 times, lied about it, covered it up, destroyed the evidence ... it's hard for me to imagine a prosecutor would look the other way," he said.
1. It has not been proven that the drug smuggler was unarmed. Sutton has been unable to prove it, yet he states it like it's a fact.
2. Compean and Ramos DID NOT LIE about shooting the drug smuggler. They didn't know that they had until almost a month later!
3. The DID NOT try to "cover it up". They verbally reported to their superiors that they fired their weapons.
4. They DID NOT destroy evidence. Sutton has been harping on this because he claims that the site of the shooting was a "crime scene" and that the BP agents knowingly altered the scene of the crime by picking up their shell casings. That is FALSE. The agents, including the agents that were with them at the time of the shooting, did NOT designate the area a crime scene, since they did NOT know that the drug smuggler had been shot.
JOHNNY SUTTON IS A BALD-FACED LIAR.
Ig the prosecutor told this to the jury, wouldn't he have to back that up with some evidence? If so, what was revealed during the trial?
You seem like you've been keeping a close eye on this event, so I assume you know what went on during the trial.
Yes, you would think so. But of course, DHS had nothing to submit. Nonetheless, that has not stopped Sutton from framing these guys as bad cops.
Court transcripts have not been completed, so no one - including the White House - knows what went on at that trial. It's my hunch that the reason they have not been transcribed is because they will not stand up to scrutiny. The prosecution is probably hoping to god that the furor dies down and people lose interest so they can quietly complete and file the transcripts.
This still does not explain how a jury was persuaded, incredibly, to convict two federal officers on the word of a drug smuggler. I can only suppose that Judge Cardone (is that the name?) manipulated the jury.
Another point occurs to me. I know U.S. attorney Sutton gave immunity to the supposed victim. Did he also give immunity to the "whistle blowing" BP officer who helped him? I call attention to Title 18, section 3 of the United States Code:
Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact. Except as otherwise expressly provided by any Act of Congress, an accessory after the fact shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the principal, or both; or if the principal is punishable by life imprisonment or death, the accessory shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years.
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