Posted on 02/09/2007 2:09:08 AM PST by ovrtaxt
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
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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.]
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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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