Border agents who testified against convicted co-workers will be fired

The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ^ | February 10, 2007 | Sara A. Carter

[truthkeeper]

Border agents who testified against convicted co-workers will be fired
Men who were at scene of shooting terminated for changing their stories
by Sara A. Carter

Two Border Patrol agents who testified against two co-workers convicted of shooting a drug smuggler will be fired for changing their stories about events surrounding the shooting, according to documents obtained by the Daily Bulletin.

Sources inside the Border Patrol also say Oscar Juarez, a third agent who testified against Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, resigned from the agency last month shortly before he was to be fired.

All three agents gave sworn testimony against Ramos and Compean for the U.S. Attorney's Office, which successfully prosecuted the shooting case in March. The agents were given immunity in exchange for their testimony despite changing their accounts of the incident several

"When you give deals to witnesses like immunity, the government usually gets the testimony (it wants)," said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, a former judge and prosecutor. "This case is a perfect example."

[truthkeeper]

My feeling too.

[alicewonders]

I can only conclude that there are some high level government people that are making a load of money off of drugs being smuggled into this country. These unfortunate border agents stumbled onto one of these deals & caught this dealer, who was never supposed to get caught. It's the only conclusion I can come up with.

[cripplecreek]

Just one more job Americans won't do.

[reformedliberal]

...the public's too busy trying to keep a roof over their heads to pay attention.

People are paying attention, even though, yes: we all have to keep on working/living. I encounter a lot of cynicism from people usually not that way.

There is a sense of being too small and too powerless to do anything. People are frightened. How much more stress and anxiety can the average individual take upon themselves, especially up here in places where inattention to your own life right now, with severe cold and snow, can result in collapsed roofs, frozen infrastructure,auto accidents?

Our side is so fractured, there is no sense of anyone being on anyone's side. There is no one to vote for who can win. The left is not only going to win the next election, they are going to wreck as much of the economy as possible. Meanwhile, Republicans and conservatives seem bent on helping them do so.

Please lighten up on the American people. No one has forgotten Waco and Ruby Ridge. Those are examples of what happens if the government notices your discontent. Arkancide happens. No one wants to be on that list. Cattle futures weren't something anyone could change. Clinton's thuggery just increases fears about the future.

I think everyone is simply hoping to survive, once again.

[jwparkerjr]

It took me several years of watching the Clintons and their administration but in time it dawned on me just what there MO is. You do what you damn well please. Then when you're called on it you deny having done it. When a credible witness surfaces you admit you did it, but lie about how you did it or to what extent you did it. At the same time you set about destroying the witness with personal attacks. Meanwhile you're doing several other things that you will soon be able to deny and then lie about so that after a while there's just so much denying and lying that your critics need a score card to keep up with everything. On, and you also depend on a press you know won't turn loose any of their investigative reporters to expose you. Meanwhile you do things like steal hundreds and hundreds of FBI files filled with juicy unproved allegations and information that will make it much easier to destroy the credible witnesses.

And you go on doing this for eight years, plus when you leave office you somehow convince your successor not to investigate any of the mess you left behind.

And of course you started by firing every current US Attorney across the nation and filling those spots with those you knew would not move against you.

Just think, how much good could have accomplished if the Clinton had put one-tenth the effort into doing his job and doing it right as put into being the First-Scoundrel.

[Gritty]

[Old_Mil]

Wait, though! Weren't the two border patrol agents criminals, who their own peers testified against - with Bush being a hero for leaving them in prison? That's what some of the mindless bots would have us think.

[YellowRoseofTx]

Have we all emailed the White House?

I have e-mailed and faxed, more than once

[Marine Inspector]

This story gets more bizarre by the day.

[truthkeeper]

I doubt we will know all the facts until the inevitable hearings are held. But it sure does reek...P.U.

[Kenny Bunk]

Anothertwistping

[TEEHEE]

And you go on doing this for eight years, plus when you leave office you somehow convince your successor not to investigate any of the mess you left behind.

Your successor wouldn't be interested in drawing attention to the process, because then your successor would draw unwanted attention to his own BS. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch your back, lather, rinse, repeat! (wink, wink)"

[thegreatmalcolmx]

Bingo!

That is why weed has not been legalized. Too much money to be made. All politicians are in it only for the money. When you finally internalize that fact, everything makes perfect sense.

[thinking]

yes....have an another beer, and continue to watch CNN for breaking news!

[xcamel]

Just my opinion, but as long as people keep banging the "blame bush" drum, you play right into to the hands of the IG/DHS criminal middle managers/lawyers/prosecutors. It is counterproductive, People should be going directly after their senators and representatives, members of the government committees involved, and above all, the local press with editorials.

Anything else you do allows you to be easily dismissed as "right wing wackos" or any number of other "moonbat/nativist/racist" groups.

For the truly ignorant and uninformed, I explain that this case is as bizarre as an episode of the "X-Files" where you simply replace "space aliens" with "Mexican druglord aliens", and leave all of the "shadow" government conspirators in place.

[LibKill]

Get those two guys out of prison before they get killed! Put these two morons in in their place.

Indeed. Perjured testimony put the wrong men in prison.

The perjurers should go prison, and later, hell.

[antisocial]

WND has an article about Aldrette's cell phone being found in the van, yet Sutton said many times there was no evidence aganst him.

[HOTTIEBOY]

While the border patrol and the feds fight and litigate amongst each other in the name of political correctness, the illegals keep pouring in........

[b4its2late]

Hopefully W knows this and will act accordingly. This really stinks.