Posted on 02/09/2007 2:09:08 AM PST by ovrtaxt
INVASION USA
Border-agent investigator had tie to smuggler
Played major role in Ramos-Compean case but name blacked out in report
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
According to official documents in WND's possession, a Department of Homeland Security agent played a major role in managing the drug smuggler and conducting the field investigation in the incident that landed Border Patrol officers Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean in federal prison for more than a decade.
Yet, in the heavily redacted 77-page DHS report submitted to Congress Wednesday there is no explicit discussion of the role DHS Special Agent Christopher Sanchez played in the case.
Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, yesterday called for the resignation of four DHS investigators, including Assistant Inspector General Elizabeth Redman, after DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner testified under oath his deputies had lied to Congress about non-existent reports that were supposed to have established Ramos and Compean as rogue cops who wanted to "shoot some Mexicans."
 Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila |
WND has obtained a copy of the government-issued border pass given to Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, the drug smuggler granted immunity to testify against Ramos and Compean. The border pass allowed multiple entries to the U.S. and carried the signature and badge number of Sanchez.
The border pass appears to have been issued March 16, 2005, the day Sanchez brought Aldrete-Davila to William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, to have a bullet removed from his right thigh.
"Aldrete-Davila was issued what amounts to a 'Gold Elite' border pass," Andy Ramirez, chairman of the Friends of the Border Patrol, told WND. "With the stamp for multiple entries into the United States, Aldrete-Davila didn't have to run the back roads as a drug smuggler any more. He could tell his drug bosses in Mexico that he could drive their loads right through border crossing points without much worry."
WND previously reported Aldrete-Davila was implicated in a second drug bust in October 2005, subsequent to the Feb. 17, 2005 incident with Ramos and Compean in which he abandoned a 1989 Ford Econoline containing 743 pounds of marijuana driven across the border from Mexico.
"With that border pass, Aldrete-Davila had the green light," Ramirez told WND. "He might have been indicted if the vehicle he drove in October 2005 with 1,000 pounds of dope was identified back to a border-crossing photograph, but he probably never had to be arrested."
The prosecutor of Ramos and Compean, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, has told WND that Aldrete-Davila was never arrested a second time for a drug offense in October 2005, but Sutton has never denied the smuggler was indicted for such an offense.
Medical records obtained by WND clearly establish the bullet wounds suffered by Aldrete-Davila involved a lateral wound to the left buttocks, not a "shot in the back" as repeatedly claimed by Sutton.
The medical records document that March 16, 2005, Dr. Winston Marne removed a large bullet fragment from Aldrete-Davila's right thigh. The records indicate bullet fragments were found in Aldrete-Davila's pelvis but not removed. The path of the bullet is clearly described as entering in the left side of the left buttocks, traversing the groin area, and lodging in the right thigh.
The records also indicate reconstructive surgery was performed on Aldrete-Davila the same day at the army hospital. Damage to the urethra required a catheter to be inserted. Aldrete-Davila was placed under anesthetics for the operation and was heavily sedated for pain.
The drug smuggler was released from the army hospital the same day and given to the protective custody of Sanchez, who also took with him the bullet fragment removed from Aldrete-Davila's thigh.
WND has learned Aldrete-Davila spent the night of March 16, 2005, at the home of Sanchez.
"Christopher Sanchez shows up again with the shell fragments from Aldrete-Davila's body," Ramirez pointed out to WND. "Sanchez was evidently Aldrete-Davila's handler and from the looks of it, he did a good job. Taking that bullet home broke the chain of evidence. From there on, what good would a report be even if it established the bullet was fired from Ramos' gun?"
WND previously reported that the weapons identifications ballistics analysis performed by the Texas Department of Public Safety on the bullet fragment held by Sanchez did not match the bullet to the weapons fired Feb. 17, 2005 by Ramos or Compean.
March 16, 2005, was also the date "Osvaldo" Aldrete-Davila signed and accepted his offer of immunity from Sutton's office, supposedly signed before the medical operation was performed and the border pass issued. There is no time stamp noted on the immunity document nor mention of the location where the document was signed.
As WND reported, Sanchez grew up with Aldrete-Davila in Mexico, and the drug dealer's identity was first discovered through these family connections.
WND repeatedly has noted many of the DHS investigative reports were filed by Sanchez, who appears to have played a major role in the DHS field investigation.
"There was no reason to have redacted Christopher Sanchez's name from the report," Ramirez told WND. "Sanchez was a DHS special agent. But everywhere you look, Sanchez shows up playing a role shepherding the drug dealer around and framing the evidence that ended up being used by Johnny Sutton to put Ramos and Compean in prison for 11 and 12 years respectively."
Let me do something for your side. The alleged 2nd drug bust (we really need some independent verification for that, the only person on record about it is Ramirez, and he's just the representative of the union, and has no first-hand knowledge), was in October of 2005, right before the case.
The smuggler (and I have no idea what name to call him anymore) obviously would have to be given access to the country for the trial. So he should either have had a car and a pass, or else a U.S. agent would drive to mexico, pick him up, and bring him in with a pass. I don't know which is the norm, I'd love to know how he was brought here in 2006 for the trial.
This is speculation on my part, but if he was caught driving drugs in while with a pass to get him to the trial, that would be a very bad thing. NOW, at the same time, a criminal doing what a criminal does, while very bad for the prosecuter who granted him access, could be something they would supress at trial, since his testimony about the February case would have nothing to do with the subsequent arrest, nor would his being a drug smuggler AGAIN shed light on the truthfulness of his testimony (I presume that he had to testify that he was a drug smuggler).
SO I could see a court ruling the evidence of a drug arrest to be prejudicial and not germane to the case. Just my way of saying the story isn't completely unbelievable. HOWEVER, it wouldn't explain why the story is suppressed now, because there would be no reason (UNLESS of course there is expectation that a new trial might need to be held and the information about the bust would prejudice the next jury).
It also doesn't explain why any immunity would be granted for the subsequent arrest (Sutton says there was no immunity). But obviously they wouldn't prosecute the 2nd arrest until the court case was over, if they were hiding the arrest. Which means maybe he could still be prosecuted after the appeals process has ended.
I would certainly expect that the 2nd arrest, if it happened, would come up in deposition for a lawsuit against the government over the shooting.
Anyway, it's all speculation on my part, just one of the many possibilities surrounding this case.
Let me do something for your side. The alleged 2nd drug bust (we really need some independent verification for that, the only person on record about it is Ramirez, and he's just the representative of the union, and has no first-hand knowledge), was in October of 2005, right before the case.
The smuggler (and I have no idea what name to call him anymore) obviously would have to be given access to the country for the trial. So he should either have had a car and a pass, or else a U.S. agent would drive to mexico, pick him up, and bring him in with a pass. I don't know which is the norm, I'd love to know how he was brought here in 2006 for the trial.
This is speculation on my part, but if he was caught driving drugs in while with a pass to get him to the trial, that would be a very bad thing. NOW, at the same time, a criminal doing what a criminal does, while very bad for the prosecuter who granted him access, could be something they would supress at trial, since his testimony about the February case would have nothing to do with the subsequent arrest, nor would his being a drug smuggler AGAIN shed light on the truthfulness of his testimony (I presume that he had to testify that he was a drug smuggler).
SO I could see a court ruling the evidence of a drug arrest to be prejudicial and not germane to the case. Just my way of saying the story isn't completely unbelievable. HOWEVER, it wouldn't explain why the story is suppressed now, because there would be no reason (UNLESS of course there is expectation that a new trial might need to be held and the information about the bust would prejudice the next jury).
It also doesn't explain why any immunity would be granted for the subsequent arrest (Sutton says there was no immunity). But obviously they wouldn't prosecute the 2nd arrest until the court case was over, if they were hiding the arrest. Which means maybe he could still be prosecuted after the appeals process has ended.
I would certainly expect that the 2nd arrest, if it happened, would come up in deposition for a lawsuit against the government over the shooting.
Anyway, it's all speculation on my part, just one of the many possibilities surrounding this case.
Oh, and the reason I asked for the link is that the kink that was IN the story didn't work from the FR-posted version (because the link was a "relative link" , and looked for the document on the FR webpage). If I had realised that, I could have gone to the article and then gone to the link. But thanks for providing it directly.
I've always found it interesting that so many on the wrong side of the law are on both sides of the law.
That sounds pretty accurate, here is one conflicting item:
From OIG-DHS Memo dated March 14, 2005:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54023
Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, a Mexican national, said an unknown BP Agent shot him in the groin when he attempted to cross into the United States on February 17, 2005 near San Elizario, Texas. Aldrete-Davila advised that he fled back to Mexico where his wound was treated at a local hospital but the bullet is still lodged in his body.
The more I read about this case, the more there is to be explained by the prosecutor and the government. These men by all accounts have been rail roaded.
This thing reeks to high heaven. Glad more and more are keeping the pressure on...thx for pinging.
This relationship needs to be looked at really hard now.
[I love yesterdays headlines Report Concludes BP Agents Lied. Of course, if they actually read the report, they would have found it was just reiterating the same garbage from the smuggler and that it was authored by the same lying OIG Official that told lies to the Congressmen. Culberson is calling for her to be fired. I think she should be prosecuted.]
I don't remember off the top of my head "her" name. We need a name, do you have that info? Thanks.
The smuggler should have been on trial, for sure!
But, you know, he is such a great spy, he was actually capable of driving a van carrying a million bucks worth of pot in a high speed chase, then leaving his keys and cell phone in the car, and yet these cracker-jack investigators couldn't find a single fingerprint anywhere!
Nope... just no evidence to tie him to the pot. LOL.
I don't think you can prosecute someone for lying to a congressman in a meeting in their office. IF they had made claims under oath they could be prosecuted.
IF they purposely lied about something they should be fired. IF they simply thought or were told they had the information, and it turned out they didn't, the people who lied to them about it should be fired.
Yep. That's what I was getting at. Peace.
MUST READ LINK AT THE BOTTOM!
oh, he already has.....and he will continue to address it, by purposefully and aggressively sending a clear message to anyone the least bit interested in our sovereignty, or fair trade, etc.......
This is not about offering a better life to the underpriviledged, votes, or cheap labor for corporations....it is much more sinister than that...
I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
you forgot the /s tag!
;-)
Reportedly, nobody is talking because there is a permanent gag order. All proof sealed.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54044
The judge in the high-profile case of two U.S. Border Patrol officers imprisoned after shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler allegedly sealed key testimony and issued gag orders preventing the defendants, their families and trial participants from discussing the smuggler's involvement in a second drug bust – for which he again was granted immunity in order to testify against the agents.
(snip)
LOL. Better!
Yep, this stinks to high heavens. Thanks for the heads up.
Elizabeth M. Redman
Assistant Inspector General for Investigations
Did Christopher have approval from his superiors to take Osbaldo home with him in "protective custody" or was that something he just did out of the kindness of his heart?
Do you know if this is something that is commonly done by DHS Agents?
Also, wasn't there a story of an attorney for Osbaldo being involved in getting him in touch with the prosecutor and arranging immunity for his drug smuggling? I didn't see that in your chain of events.
POP
Who do you think Chris Sanchez's boss is?
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