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."
You want to provide a link that actually works?
Just two clicks away... but for you, sure. :-)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54167
Since posting my comment to you, I find that it fell under it's sister category, "Public Interest Parole", that DHS is authorized to issue.
What link are you looking for?
I watched the Dobbs interview last night. Interesting, Duncan Hunter's proposal for a pardon has 81 signatures thus far - not one of them Democrat.
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11529378/
Now, that is an interesting theory. Certainly the Bush administration would see that election as critically important to our national security. I think we all agree that the election of the socialist would have been bad for our country, and our border. At least the candidate who won paid lip service to controlling the border, the other candidate was an "annex california" candidate.
So it could well be that we pursued this case with extra vigor to show that we were serious about not shooting unarmed illegals, that while we were beefing up border security we weren't using it as an excuse to shoot and kill mexican citizens simply for coming over the border
Of course, simply pursuing a case isn't the same as rigging testimony. We need the transcripts to see that the evidence presented by the government wasn't fabricated. It bothers me that we don't have those transcripts, although since the defense was at the trial I don't know why they haven't simply provided WND with the false evidence presented at the trial, if they know of any.
But at least now we have a plausible explanation for why the government went through the trouble of investigating this incident that makes more sense than "George Bush loves drug smugglers and wants to erase our borders".
bump.
"We need the transcripts to see that the evidence presented by the government wasn't fabricated."
Amen. Let's find them.
He has to rehash it for the sake of those people with bad and convenient memories, and those who have been drinking Johnny Sutton's kool-aid or smoking Osbaldo's cargo, and those living in their own little bubble.
[I watched the Dobbs interview last night. Interesting, Duncan Hunter's proposal for a pardon has 81 signatures thus far - not one of them Democrat.]
That's because a Mexican illegal drug smuggler got shot in the a$$ and that's more of an outrage to most Dims (for a whole host of reasons) than an unlawful conviction and government corruption. IMHO, the Dims better jump on this one.
This is where Toobin lost me. He seems to be saying that, regardless of the guilt of a criminal, we should punish the prosecuter for granting immunity by issuing a pardon to the person he prosecuted.
I'd be interested in how rabidly pro-4th-amendment Toobin is, because this is the same argument given to let murderers and rapists go free if the police do anything in their investigation that in any way infringes on the rights of the murderers and rapists.
I simply never heard that reasoning used to suggest that an overly generous granting of immunity so harms the defendants that they should be set free to punish the prosecuter.
If there is lying under oath in the court case, that's a different matter. If they defense had been forbidden to present the evidence of the smuggler's initial statement to the investigators, that would be a grounds for appeal (nobody has said that was the case, so I presume the jury heard of the initial statements of the drug smuggler. In fact, I presume that the lawyers for both agents strongly cross-examined the drug smuggler about what he was doing that day and his false statements to the investigators).
LOL, perhaps it hasn't been provided, because DHS isn't finished "fiddling" with the transcript. After all, there are several parties who are in serious CYA mode.
Hiya sw....well you know Bush has been telling that 'tale' since the beginning...it's right up there with the tall 'tale' about doing everything in his power to secure this country. NOT.
And there is no logic...It's as if his brain has been programmed by the OBL and he repeats these things from rote. First of all, someone out to give him a clue...we ALREADY HAVE a guest worker program. And second of all, it isn't stopping them from coming. We need to cap immigration and stop illegal immigration. But this all goes against his OBL agenda.
Oh, and the reason the hispanic give-us-amnesty-or-else movement has been so quiet...they're busy planning their next big march to take over and shut down major cities all across this county...all with the wink and nod of Bush and this Administration!!
OH sw...and now with the whole Ramos & Compean stories that are coming out...it literally makes me sick to my stomach...Bush is to blame to the extent, imo, that he refuses to stand up to the OBL, that, or he IS the OBL. How much more needs to happen before the American people wake up and realize the danger to our country's sovereignty AND security because every decision made is with Open Borders in mind. Either way, I've decided Dana Rohrback is on the right track. There is something going on between Sutton, Gonzales and Bush. Like I said, just a few weeks after those BP convictions and Gonzales appointed Sutton to Chair of AGAC. thankfully Lou Dobbs and now Glenn Beck are hanging on to these stories like a Dog with a Bone!!!
The bitter irony is that if a gay medical malpractice lawyer teaching at UC Irvine had been imprisoned, the Dems would be calling for Bush's impeachment. Senate investigation hearings, for whatever they're worth, are going to begin.
"I presume that the lawyers for both agents strongly cross-examined the drug smuggler about what he was doing that day"
So is that why we don't get the transcripts? Because Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila gave up names?
Yes, that is unfortunate. I presume that the smuggler refused any such linkage, noting that it would be a death sentence for him.
I guess Sutton could have decided at that point that he rather let the entire world go free than prosecute two men he thought broke the law, but why would he do that?
The supposition is that if Sutton had chosen to, he COULD have gotten the witness to provide all that information. The further supposition is that Sutton was acting on behalf of the smuggler, and therefore the smuggler OWED Sutton a favor and could have been pressured to provide more information.
In fact, we have no idea whether the smuggler had ANY interest in pursuing this case. We presume he wanted to get that bullet taken out and his wounds treated. And if the bullet was shot by an agent, we did have an obligation to treat the victim (that is true even when we righteously shoot rapists and murderers).
Once you assume they are innocent, every attempt to find them guilty is obviously an evil plot. But if you assume they are guilty, then everything done to get evidence to convict them is simply good police/investigative work.
Unfortunately, when the argument is over whether they are innocent or guilty, the two sides end up with a different perspective on every last thing done. Since the initial information clearly pointed to the likely guilt of the agents (starting with the fact that no record of the shooting existed, but it clearly happened), I see no reason why Sutton would NOT have pursued the case.
And if the Mexican government was involved raising a stink about one of their citizens being shot, that would explain why Sutton wouldn't just drop the investigation.
There seems to be some that don't care whether the two are guilty or not, they think there never should have been an investigation. My hope is that MOST of those who want the men pardon do so because they think the men are innocent, and NOT because they think BP agents shouldn't be hassled for shooting illegals even if they weren't supposed to.
LOL. You're right. It seems that the Dims do manage to do one thing right - pander to their base. A lot of times, it is just that, pandering, as in "I was for the war before I was against it" and "I've since changed my mind re the Iraq war", blah, blah, blah.
I note that this story is about RENE sanchez, not Chris. I've been wondering where the story was about CHRIS being a childhood friend of the smuggler, because I had remembered reading that it was Rene Sanchez, not Chris, that was his childhood friend.
Since you are well-connected on your side, do you have the evidence that Chris was a childhood friend, or are we simply confusing Chris with Rene?
The mother of the drug dealer knew the mother of the agent Rene Sanchez who reported the shooting.
I know of no prior relationship between Chris Sanchez and the smuggler, and I certainly didn't mean to imply otherwise. The excerpt I post was in response to a post discussing BP Agent Rene Sanchez's ties to the smuggler. I just added some details.
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