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Thanks ccg..I've been slowly wading through Agent Sanchez testimony. His testimony really bothers me. So many things he didn't tape or record and remembers from "memory" and then says conflicts with written statements.

It bothers me that they walked the "vega" and didn't find bullets or blood and yet he was convinced the magic bullet came from Compeans service weapon. The parts (so far) that bothers me even more is the following exchange under cross on page 65 +

BY MS. STILLINGER:
4 Q. You told me, when we talked last week -- and I'm talking
5 about talking in court, when I was questioning you last week.
6 You told me that you just found out about the $5 million claim
7 that Mr. Aldrete-Davila filed. I think you said you found out
8 sometime around May or June. Is that right?
9 A. I believe it was May.
10 Q. Okay. Did you know that Rene Sanchez had advised
11 Mr. Aldrete-Davila about that?
12 A. No, ma'am, I did not.
13 Q. Okay. Did you know that Rene Sanchez had talked to
14 Aldrete-Davila about immunity?
15 A. No, ma'am, I did not.
16 Q. Okay. And did you know that he found him a lawyer?
17 A. No, ma'am, I did not.
18 Q. Did you just find that out for the first time when
19 Aldrete-Davila testified last week?
20 A. Yes, ma'am.
21 Q. Okay. That's something that would have been
interesting
22 for you to know in your investigation, wouldn't it?
23 MS. KANOF: Objection, Your Honor, argumentative.

It bothers me that they walked the "vega" and didn't find bullets or blood and yet he was convinced the magic bullet came from Compeans service weapon.

You know, your post here, and the thread on the Mexican consulate, just came together for me.

In the DHS-OIG Report of Investigation (ROI) it makes mention of the day that agents went to the site to look for bullets, including use of metal detectors. What didn't make sense was participation of one of the agencies involved, specifically the DSS:

On March 17, 2005, DHS OIG agents, OIA agents, BP El. Paso Sector Evidence Team (SET) members and U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents, scoured the site of the shooting incident, using metal detectors to look for casings and any other detectable evidence, but no evidence of the shooting was found. Check out who DSS is here

This is a new one for me.

Note that this is the first real effort to scour the scene for evidence,
and a day after they had executed an immunity agreement with Aldrete-Davila:

Volume 12, p. 93-94
C. Sanchez - Cross by Mr. Antcliff

24 And March 17th, I believe, is when we got all the
25 agents -- or the majority of the agents out of my office, the
1 Office of Internal Audit -- at least one, if not two, agents
2 from the sector evidence team, and agents from other agencies,
3 go out there and help us go on line and look through it.

4 And also, we had, I believe, the Mexican investigators
5 from the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, and Mexican
6 police, on the south side of the river assisting, also.

7 Q. And nobody found anything?

8 A. Nothing.