[Darkwolf377]

"I can't believe that the supervisor arrives at the scene, immeadiately asks what is going on, and nobody says a word about a single shot being fired...? Sorry, I just don't buy that. I think as some point, the FOS was made a ware of the fact that the agent(s) had discharged their sidearms, but decided to through them under the bus (to save himself) when the DHS started investigating the incident. He, like the agents, figured that the smuggler had escaped back into Mexico, so why should have to write out all that paperwork and then process it...? They were probably never going to see him again, anyway."

So if you were just involved in shooting 15 bullets at someone, you wouldn't discuss it with your supervisor, you'd just assume he heard?

I agree these guys should never have gotten the sentence they got, but is that the kind of operational behavior you want with people who discharge weapons while guarding our borders?

What about this part from the article I posted: "Following the incident, Ramos and Compean filed a false investigative report, disposed of their shell casings, and lied to their supervisor."

Anyone know if this is an accurate representation of the facts?

If an agent just discharged all of these bullets, he wouldn't want to talk about it with his supervisor personally, and not just think "Oh, well, he heard, if he has any questions he'll ask"? Over the hours, days, and weeks that followed, he wouldn't want to talk about it one-on-one--he just unloads on someone and can't be bothered with paperwork...and doesn't talk about it with his supe? Is that how we want our government agents working?

[stillfree?]

We are just glad they are getting out. End of story. It was an injustice that they were sentenced like this. You can debate until the cows come home, but common sense (which seems to be lacking in so many things these days)simply dictates that a minor punishment was required for a minor infraction. Geez!

[Cyropaedia]

The overriding issue is that the FOS probably was made aware ( at some point ) of the fact that the sidearms had been discharged. At that point it becomes his responsibility to ask the follow up questions. The FOS writes out all of the reports.

The two agents did not file "false" reports; no report related to the shootings was filed in the first place. Ramos and Compean have been consistent in their versions of the events involved. Two other agents were fired because they repeatedly changed their version of events to investigators ( in other words, they lied).

Sutton needed the FOS to successfully prosecute R & C. The supervisor came out of this mess with a promotion.

The total number of shots was less than 15, BTW.