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."
[Even that is odd.]
Unless, of course, this whole operation is a drug importing scheme program run by our government. I was wondering, why would a low-life drug runner, who had been shot trying to cross the border, not just count himself lucky to be alive and then melt into the woodwork? Why would someone like him, think that he had a prayer of a chance to get help from someone in our government? It goes way beyond, just a friend helping a friend. You can't get one of those magic border passes without jumping through a lot of hoops. Why wouldn't Sanchez just say, "Sorry that happened buddy, but I can't do anything. I want to keep my job." Sorry to say it, but this sounds like a mob operation, where the big wigs ended up taken care of their own, and exacting revenge on the unfortunate guys who got in their way.
Yes, but you know how to think for yourself. Many folks don't have the same fortitude and will bend to pressure. Many have always had sheep qualities... heck, just look at FR, lol.
One also wonders why a guy running drugs for the cartel,
who lost the van and the million dollars of pot within it,
is still alive.
"If it walks like a duck...........".
I don't give anyone safe harbor when it comes to corruption or criminal activity. If a president while serving as state attorney general and governor can rape and get away with it, what makes you think a mere US Attorney General and former state supreme court justice is immune from suspicion of taking drug money?
Follow the money!
Good question.
Hubby and I were discussing this last night. We haven't read all the propaganda on this case. However, if there is evidence that someone lied under oath or that the evidence was compromised, then the judge involved should throw out the case. The POTUS is in a lose-lose situation here because if he doesn't pardon the agents, then he looks bad. If he pardons them, then he could also look like he favors vigilante-type behavior. (whether it's true or not)
We decided that the POTUS should just pardon the agents and be done with it. But there are still a lot of holes in our knowledge of this subject.
true... but sad. I blame our schools for creating a sheep mentality, but that is for another thread.
This is where some good investigative reporting is helpful, helps prove or disprove theories, rumors and inuendos.. I don't place anyone in our government above being influenced by trillions of dollars in drug money flowing around this world.
Good question.
Not to mention he was entrusted with an even larger load.
I worked the dope detail off and on for years. That alone is a major clue something is series wrong.
Anybody can be a criminal. Think anybody thought a shuttle astronaut would try to kidnap someone?
But there's a long distance between the abstract knowledge that all men could be evil, and accusing someone of being evil simply because you don't like some piece of politics about them.
If you are going to accuse the Attorney General of criminal activity, you better have a shred of evidence to back it up, or I think you deserve to be criticized for it.
But of course my point was that, for all their high-and-mighty rhetoric about people being innocent intil really proven guilty, and how they just want the truth, I didn't expect anybody on your side to say a word about your comment, because it plays into their smearing of the administration in pursuit of their goal.
I love people asking questions. I get bothered when people asking questions also reach conclusions based on the answers they think they might get.
Like congressman saying they can't get the evidence, and they need to have an inquiry to find the truth, and they BP agents should be pardoned.
Woops. Shouldn't you have the results of the inquiry before you conclude they should be pardoned?
My statement was based on the hypothesis that there is a witness who testified that the two said they were "out to shoot mexicans". The confusion would then be as to WHO said they said it, and whether the statement was in writing or verbal, and whether it was part of a sworn affidavit to the investigator or 2nd-hand information.
I assume that if it was brought up a the trial, someone was a witness and testified to it. No way the judge allows a 3rd-party investigator to simply say he "heard someone say they said it".
If it wasn't brought up at the trial, the evidence or lack thereof for it has no bearing on the trial. If someone made it up outside the trial for purposes of keeping the heat off, that itself is serious, and someone should be disciplined for doing so, but then it's not an issue about the trial itself or their guilt.
Why did they put them into prisons heavy with illegals — unless we don't have any other kind of prisons these days.
I will note that in all my discussions, I don't think I've ever included this assertion among my reasons for leaning toward their guilt. Nor have I leaned on the suggestions of Ramos's personal life. I've always discounted those things for the sake of discussion, because they are obviously in dispute and of a he-said/she-said variety.
There are very light weight inmates there and the BCP guys would have been quite safe. But no, this Administration wants blo.....
There a lot of reasons. It could be that smuggling is so easy and the drugs are so available that losing loads isn't much of a problem. In this case one doper has managed to destroy the lives of two Border Patrol agents and intimidate the entire Dempartment of Homeland Security, something the cartel he worked for couldn't do.
If I had accused then you would be correct in demanding evidence and criticizing me if I didn't produce.
However, please read again my post and show me where I accuse!
(My previous post) "It would be interesting to investigate any "family connections" that exist to Alberto Gonzales!!! If not "family connections" then his finances that could indicate drug money going into his or his family's pockets!!!"
Now, tell me how you jump from "It would be interesting to investigate....." to ACCUSE??? You are responding on emotion as a Bush administration apologist would be expected to do. Therefore before you go accusing people of making statements that they have not made, take a deep breath and calm down before you run off at the mouth.
OK, you are right. Although on a technicality, as it sounds much like the "we have to investigate because it's not the weight of the evidence but the seriousness of the charge".
But I do apologize for suggesting you "accused" him of anything, and appreciate your re-emphasis of your meaning and giving me this opportunity to respond.
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