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."
[Elizabeth M. Redman
Assistant Inspector General for Investigations]
Thanks, I was too lazy to go through my posts.:)
So, if I understand correctly, this is the DHS employee who wrote the false report and reported to Congress? Weren't there other DHS employees spewing the same lies to Congress? Sorry to be a pain, but the exact names of all Government employees involved in this fabrication need to be named.
One would hope that that could be assumed with ME.
/s
Seems like someone should be looking into the finances of Sanchez.
LOL!
Of course! I was just being onery.....
;-)
This feels like the old days of Bill Clinton, when just as things were getting hot for him and he was being exposed in the media, some weird, strange thing happened, took over, and buried it. Quite often it was a sudden death of some sort. Is the Clinton War Room working for the current Administration?
The media in this country is disgraceful.
Listening to Steve and he just spent an hour on the subject of II on WMAL.
You think YOU'RE onry?
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Okay... to me more complete for anyone else reading, the meeting we are talking about is the one between OIG and the Congressman, described in the first part of this letter from Rep. McCaul (as well as the stonewalling that followed).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771737/posts?page=250#250
There are probably some written sources by now, but Sara A. Carter, ace reporter for the Inland Daily Bulletin, was on KFI Radio Wednesday and said that the names of the two people caught in the lie were:
• Elizabeth Redman, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations
• Tamara Faulkner, Congressional Affairs Liaison and Media and Public Outreach
You can find both of their bios here:
http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/about/biography_0068.shtm
I have 'known' from the beginning there was something 'not quite right' about this case. The prosecution of these two agents and the involvement of the drug smuggler's mother, made it obvious to me there was something very underhanded going on. We shall see...
Illegal immigration is the on issue that very few Americans can vote on. When all the candidates in a race support the side of an issue that 55% or 95% of the electorate oppose, which side of the issue will prevail? You have to vote for someone or for no one. So you can only vote on the other issues. Any way you vote or don't that one side of that issue will win.
Snow probably drew a fatter check at FNC than he does now.
You have just stumbled upon a key element in the LA "multiple benefits" game. Being essentially undocumented on our side of the border means you can be anyone you like, whenever you like, or need to be..
Also, there are far fewer surnames en español than in English. The confusion, and the traditional use of the mother's name (i.e. Aldrete y Avila, Aldrete Avila, Avila, Davila, Aldrete de Avila, Aldrete-Avila, Davila-Aldrete, same guy, 10 different hospital cards, SS cards, DLs, Green cards, Border passes, some real, some fake) are no help to law enforcement.
It is entirely possible that the Sanchez connection is something this guy has been working for years.
Investigation please.
bttt
If my job was an investigator for the DHS, and I was told by my supervisor to retreive a witness in a case, I wouldn't refuse simply because I knew them as a child.
I don't know. I thought he was a DHS employee, and therefore would have a DHS supervisor. Somewhere up the chain is Michael Chertoff, and then the President.
I didn't think the prosecuters were bosses in the Department of Homeland Security, I thought Sutton was in the justice department, so while he might have been working on an investigation for the justice department, I think his boss is a DHS employee.
But that's all conjecture. I bet there's a web site that would tell us all we need to know about that though -- I just don't know what that website is.
I haven't seen independent verification of that, but in either case why would it still be sealed, now that they case is over, unless they are worried that the case might have to be retried on appeal? Why a permanent seal?
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