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."
http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/ramirez081706.pdf
Official Testimony Presented by:
Andy Ramirez, Chairman
Friends of the Border Patrol
Submitted to:
Committee on Judiciary
The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman
August 17, 2006 – El Paso, TX
(snip)
The smuggler also testified that he and Rene Sanchez were both born and raised in San Ysidro, MX and had known each other since they were kids. The smuggler testified that he and Rene Sanchez had not seen each other in the past year, while Rene Sanchez testified that he had not seen the smuggler since he was seven years old.
The smuggler also testified that he had met and talked to Rene Sanchez in Laredo before the drug bust in Fabens, TX in which he was wounded. He also testified that he had run into Rene Sanchez in Juarez sometime in October and before the original trial date of October the 17th. He also testified that Rene Sanchez and Christopher Sanchez had picked him up on Sunday, two days before trial and taken him to the federal building in El Paso to prepare for the case with the prosecutors. Rene Sanchez testified that although they were all in the same car, they never talked to each other.
When Rene Sanchez took the stand he testified that he had not seen the smuggler for approximately eight years. Rene Sanchez admitted to having advised the smuggler to turn himself in and admitted to having told him what to say. Rene Sanchez also admitted to having got the smuggler the lawyer, whose last name is Boyaki, to file the five million dollar lawsuit against the border patrol.
Gee, ya think....?
Tale of a different tail, isn't it!
Got that right man.
Mr Bush. Tear down the walls that have these two patriotic heroes trapped among the bad guys. Do it now! Before they are murdered.
Full pardons, back pay and promotions are in order. This is the minimum owed these gentlemen.
It came out that the mother of this drug dealer is a childhood friend of someone in Homeland Security and after she contacted him, he told her he would take care of it. The agent in Homeland Security should be fired AND prosecuted for obstruction of justice! This case exposes the corruption and abuse of power that was used to prosecute two Border Patrol agents and protect a drug smuggler.
We can not allow this evidence to be buried anymore!
These two Border Patrol agents should have been reprimanded and or suspended for NOT reporting the incident, but they should NEVER have been prosecuted!
That is beyond ludicrous.....
I also thank you for posting the transcript. I don't normally give CNN the time of day though I might have to reconsider viewing Mr. Dobbs' show if this is his norm.
"I might have to reconsider viewing Mr. Dobbs' show if this is his norm."
I have watched him on a number of occasions. He is usually right on point from what I have seen in the past.
Per some reports, the Smuggler's mother-in-law, not the Smuggler, was the one who complained to Sanchez about the shooting.
[Even that is odd.]
ping
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!!!
So, did both C. Sanchez and R. Sanchez have ties to the dealer before Feb. 17, 2005?
So many good questions --- so few truthful answers from Johnny Sutton and the DHS and Tony Snow Job.
I don't know. One also has to wonder if there is a prior relationship between Sanchez and Sanchez.
A whole lot, all the way to the white house!!!
Again, I'll just choose one line to show how Corsi lies and twists the story:
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.
The ballistics report Corsi refers to did NOT show that the bullet fragments "did not match". The report said that the bullet could not be proven to match; the report said all they could tell is it came from one of 4 weapon types, one of which was the weapon type used by the BP agents.
This is like finding smeared fingerprints and claiming since they can't be matched, it proves there was not a match. It's the type of sloppy, biased reporting we get from Corsi, and is why it's hard to accept anything he says as truth, until it's reported by a real news source.
If the agent grew up with the smuggler, does that make the agent Mexican? Is he an illegal? How did the agent get from being a Mexican to being a US DHS agent?
If the Agent's family still live in Mexico, does that leave the Agent open to blackmail, and or intimidation of his family?
Another misleading statement by Corsi. The only evidence Sanchez had any "access" to was the bullet. The bullet was not conclusive, and was not used in the court case anyway, since Ramos stipulated that the bullet was his.
So in fact Sanchez's involvement with the drug smuggler is of no real import for what happened AT the trial. He was the handler for the smuggler -- so what? They obviously were going to assign an investigator to the case, and there's no reason for that investigator NOT to be the same throughout the investigation, unless the defense raised objections beforehand.
No doubt you can raise questions about the familial relationship betweeen Sanchez and the other Sanchez who reported the case. But suspicions about the investigators aren't very useful after actual testimony at a trial (NOT from the investigators, but from the principles) has led to a conviction.
I would also note that a couple of days ago, when a report written by Sanchez appeared to back a contention by the defense, there was NO hint that Sanchez's reports were anything but the gospel truth and should be used to pardon the agents. (That was the one that it turned out was just Sanchez accurately reporting what Compean claimed had happened).
[Apparently these two are homeboys. I've always found it fascinating that law enforcement people have such ties to those who live on the fringe of legality, or worse.]
That usually only happens when both are benefiting from the relationship.
I'm not up on all the facts in this case, but I do think that the Hispanic culture is different in terms of their social ties, degree of loyalty, etc., and that could explain a small part of the situation.
Objectivity in law enforcement is an essential; however, and if law enforcement officers of any stripe don't have that, then they can't perform their jobs with any level of efficacy.
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