You have GOT to be kidding me!!!
Andrew McCarthy attempted to declare R&C guilty based on his reading of a Department of Homeland Security-OIG Report of Investigation, a report (not transcripts or an account of the trial), that was 1) heavily redacted, 2) not released in its entirety (it included only 3 of 93 exhibits), and was written by the same people that were later found to have lied to Congress saying that Ramos and Compean were "out to shoot Mexicans." It was posted here.
There was NO legal analysis, let alone any "debunking." He included such stunning legal (NOT) analysis that he characterized the event as:
"...shooting human beings on sight just because they happen to be suspects, or here illegally, is reprehensible. It is inhumane. It is against the principles of honorable law enforcement. It is un-American."He blatantly mischaracterized the acts and then declared them reprehensible. Just another guy who seems not to want to let the FACTS get in his way.
From Andrew M.
As if more three-card-Monte from Carter were necessary, she also omits the report’s description of this particular agent’s relevance to the case. Why leave that out? Because it sinks one of our heroes. Compean had falsely alleged that (a) he had told the agent in question that he’d been assaulted by Aldrete-Davila and (b) the agent failed to file a report documenting this purported assault. But the IG’s pointed rebuttal, conveniently skipped by Carter, notes that “[Compean’s] own statements, his trial testimony, as well as statements and testimony from the other [Border Patrol agents] contradicted Compean’s allegation.”
Readers don’t need to take my word for it. They can read the report for themselves. They can observe how agent after agent knew about the shooting and helped Compean and Ramos cover it up. They can see how, at the time of the shooting, the two convicted agents never claimed Aldrete-Davila had a gun (as they now insist); how Compean expressly conceded that he had not been assaulted or injured (as he now claims); and how Compean confessed that he had concealed evidence of the fourteen shots he fired and then lied about what happened because, in his words, “I was afraid I was going to get in trouble.”
People can also read the testimony.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/Compean-Ramos/Volume%2010.pdf -- Jacquez testimony page 73.
Jacquez - Direct by Mr. Gonzalez 73 1 then Agent Ramos is the one that told him that he went after 2 the driver of the van, and that the driver and Agent Compean 3 had -- 4 Q. Wait. Sorry. Ramos told who? 5 A. Richards. 6 Q. Told him what? 7 A. That he went after the driver of the van. 8 Q. Okay. That Ramos went after the driver of the van? 9 A. Yes. 10 Q. And that the driver of the van got into some kind of 11 physical altercation with Agent Compean? 12 A. And that Compean's cut and was bleeding. 13 Q. You're saying he told Richards that Compean had a physical 14 altercation? 15 A. Yes. 16 Q. And that he was bleeding, correct? 17 A. Yes.
Sounds like an assault to me.