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."
Bush better look into this....feds protecting illegal drug smugglers + giving this guy a green card with immunity to bring drugs across the border........ anytime....OUTRAGEOUS...fed prosecutor needs to be fired...judge needs to be investigated and removed from the bench....and the border agents do not need to be pardoned...they both need to be vindicated completely...these men need to be paid large sums of money for what they & their families have been through...
ping
Jerome Corsi just signed up hosting the Derry Brownfield Show today. In goes into more depth on the show:
http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/asp/asx.asp?listen=854
That link will only be good thru today. From 2/10/07 on, check the archives here:
http://www.brownfieldagnews.com/dbspodcast/
smuggler also testified that he had met and talked to Rene Sanchez in Laredo before the drug bust in Fabens, TX in which he was wounded
He also testified that he had run into Rene Sanchez in Juarez sometime in October and before the original trial date of October the 17th.
He also testified that Rene Sanchez and Christopher Sanchez had picked him up on Sunday, two days before trial and taken him to the federal building in El Paso to prepare for the case with the prosecutors.
When Rene Sanchez took the stand he testified that he had not seen the smuggler for approximately eight years.
Rene Sanchez admitted to having advised the smuggler to turn himself in and admitted to having told him what to say.
Rene Sanchez also admitted to having got the smuggler the lawyer, Boyaki
needs repeating
Thank you for a good post. Wow!
Do you think maybe, as an investigator in OIG, that he might work under the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, Elizabeth Redman? Since Redman is the one who met with the Congressman, who do you think she would have gone to for info? Perhaps, the person that investigated the case?
Although I agree with your arguments about 95%, one thing troubles me and that is the fact that the two agents are proscribed from making written reports and that there were two supervisors at the scene of the incident who should have made reports.... and didn't. where am I wrong?
The seal usually carries a specific date, but it can also be sealed forever. I don't know which is true in this case. Heck... they were still sealing more documents as late as November 2006. I don't expect them unseal anything voluntarily any time soon.
Tired of the weakness, the bumbling, the "new tone in Washington," the spending, "compassionate conservatism," etc.
I don't know how many levels of supervisors there are between him and Redman. And for all I know, Redman is the one who got the story wrong, and not Sanchez. If Sanchez lied to Redman about what was in his own reports, he should be disciplined. If Redman lied about the reports, she should be disciplined.
It is possible that neither lied, although if it is only those two it's hard to see how there could be that big a disconnect without one of them doing it on purpose.
If there were several levels of supervisors, it is possible that there was miscommunication. For example, Sanchez may have recounted a verbal statement which is noted in his report. Since it is written down, his supervisor might have said they had a written statement in the report (wrong but understandable). The next level might have thought that meant there was a written "statement", meaning a statement made to the investigator that was signed, making a claim. And thus Redman walks into the office and says "yea, we have a signed statement about that, we'll get it to you".
We see that kind of "miscommunication" with the evidence here every day. Someone says a report "proves" something, or contains an "admission", and then it turns out that the report is only quoting someone about it, and it's the defendant themselves.
So I'm not saying somebody shouldn't be fired. The people who gave bad information (all 3 of them) need to be investigated to see what happened, and disciplined appropriately. If someone is trying to lie to hide something, they should be fired, and if their lie was under oath, prosecuted.
Again, I'm not trying to give anybody a pass for bad behavior, I'm only saying that the evidence we have at this time does not rise in my mind to proof of bad behavior which should lead to the consequences being called for. I need more evidence.
Thanks.. of course a lot of us Freepers have been all over this little connection that so many want to ignore or play as insignificant.
bttt
It's true.... most of us have known this for months... and it was confirmed recently by the Border Patrol Union.
How do you possibly miscommunicate somehting and end up with "We were out to shoot Mexicans"
You're stretching credibility beyond any possible level, imo.
and yet the jury convicted these two guys. I'm really buying into jury tampering here.
You are starting to ask some of the same questions many of us have been asking....
I don't have an overall theory yet--but I've seen plenty of evidence that things stink!
I need to see more before having an opinion on the jury. I did read early articles during the trial that quoted some pretty inflammatory stuff the prosecutor was throwing around. Kanof sounded like a real piece of work (the win at all costs type). That's not justice, imo. And depending on what the jury heard, it's hard to gauge if they they made the proper call (based only on what they heard).
Something none of us will really know until the transcripts are made available. The three jurors saying they were told they had to convict, by the foreman, bothers me. I have served on jury's and never would I vote guilty or for a judgement unless I believed in the evidence.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.