Ballistics data don't support charge against border agents

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | January 28, 2007 | Jerome R. Corsi

[R. Scott]

Nearly two years after the conclusion of the trial, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has yet to release a transcript of the trial.

!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!
This whole thing smells like a week old dead cat in July.

[wafflehouse]

DHS informed the Texas Republican delegation the documents would not be turned over to them because the Democrats were now in control of Congress and Rep. McCaul was no longer chairman of the Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

ah, what the hell?

[calcowgirl]

In an affidavit filed by DHS on March 15, 2005, with the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas, special agent Christopher R. Sanchez swore the following: Ballistics testing confirms a government-issued weapon belonging to U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos, a 96D Beretta .40 caliber automatic pistol, serial number BER067069M, fired a bullet (a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson jacketed hollow point) which hit the victim in the left buttocks while he was attempting to flee to Mexico.

That is a pretty huge lie! This Christopher R. Sanchez character seems to be at the heart of a lot of the discrepancies and shady arrangements.

[calcowgirl]

I think the author screwed that one up. Compean and Ramos were convicted by the jury on March 8, 2006.

[endthematrix]

Why all the technicalities?

The agents we doing there job. It's the system that failed them. I wouldn't want support groups on my behalf to cry conspiracy. I would want them to cry FOUL at this failed immigration policy with Mexico.

[raybbr]

Hasn't anybody brought up the old 'chain of evidence' question. Good grief. One of his buddies probably shot him because he lost the dope.

[ZULU]

George and Alberto won't let logic, patriotism or fair play get in the way of crucifying border agnets for doing a good job of fighting drug-delaing illegal invaders.

It might the Mexicans mad or discourage more illegal invaders from coming into America and taking low paying jobs from special interest groups who are lowering the American standard of life.

[DJ Taylor]

It's a heck of a note when border law enforcement agents get into an altercation with a Mexican drug smuggler and find out too late the drug smuggler has more friends in the Bush Administration than they have. If the President doesn't fix this one, and fix it soon, he will surely lose what little support he has left among conservatives.

And don't expect any help from the Democrat Congress, they must love every minute of this travesty for what it's doing to the GOP. I can just hear them now, "The President gives pardons to convicted drug dealers and allows his Department of Justice to "Nifong" Border Patrol Agents when they attempt to enforce our drug laws at the Mexican border."

[freeangel]

"It might make the mexicans mad...."

There have been plenty of other Freepers on other threads who would go along with not wanting to make the mexicans mad and plenty of others who think these agents "got what they deserved". I hope, with more info coming to light, these jerks choke on the words they have written here.

[DWPittelli]

I'd say that, regardless of their intent and actions during the shooting, cops who shoot 15 times, then pick up their brass and fail to file a shooting report, are asking for whatever trouble a prosecutor chooses to make for them.

[Dante3]

Sure does.

[Dante3]

Exactly.

[1rudeboy]

In case you've been wondering what Prof. Corsi's been up to. "Nearly a year" has become "[n]early two years." I guess Jan. 1st throws him off.

[RushingWater]

I'd say that, regardless of their intent and actions during the shooting, cops who shoot 15 times, then pick up their brass and fail to file a shooting report, are asking for whatever trouble a prosecutor chooses to make for them.

Oh yea, sure, these agents thought that nobody would know about the shooting because they didn't file a report???? Uh, I believe their supervisor was on the scene fairly pronto - I don't understand your incredulous lack of support for these agents in light of new evidence now coming out??

[WesternPacific]

...no U.S. law enforcement officer on the border will ever again draw a weapon against a Mexican illegal transporting drugs without worrying that effort to enforce our laws may place him in jail, not the doper.

Could this be the objective of the open border mindset?

[Moseley]

In an affidavit filed by DHS on March 15, 2005, with the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas, special agent Christopher R. Sanchez swore the following:

Ballistics testing confirms a government-issued weapon belonging to U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos, a 96D Beretta .40 caliber automatic pistol, serial number BER067069M, fired a bullet (a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson jacketed hollow point) which hit the victim in the left buttocks while he was attempting to flee to Mexico.

Contrasted with the actual contents of the lab report, this combination of documents provides prima facie of a FELONY by FBI agent Sanchez of PERJURY.

Remember that Congress impeached Bill Clinton for committing perjury. If perjury was so serious by Bill Clinton to impeace a sitting President, can we simply overlook it in the FBI? In Clinton's case, it was a one-time thing about Paula Jones.

But in the case of the FBI, it is probably going to happen again unless we put a stop to it. How many other people are going to go to jail based on lies from the same special agent? Or is it the culture of the entire office?

[Moseley]

Of course you can think that (that it is okay because a jury found them guilty). But I think it is abundantly obvious that the jury would probably not have found them guilty if the jury had known that the FBI special agent was LYING TO THEM about the ballistics report.

I think you also underestimate the tendency of juries to be railroaded by prosecutors. Most people assume defendants are guilty if the prosecutor says so. That is why it is essential that we police the police (and FBI) to eradicate any dishonesty or abuse.

[Moseley]

I'd say that, regardless of their intent and actions during the shooting, cops who shoot 15 times, then pick up their brass and fail to file a shooting report, are asking for whatever trouble a prosecutor chooses to make for them.

Would it change your opinion if you learned (as the White House and Prosecutor Sutton don't want you to know) that supervisors came on the scene shortly after and were informed directly, live, and that DHS procedures prefer a verbal report to a paper one?

[1rudeboy]

Sure it would. Please go on.