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Just read your post, I had to go pick up my daughter and I finished my short post after reading the article. So it seems the article I read is the article Cyropaedia is referring to. And you have it right. For instance.

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.

I was referring to the January article, that relied entirely on Johnny Sutton's press releases as a source for his "guilty" verdict. His February article relied entirely on the DHS-OIG Report written by the folks that lied to Congress alleging R&C were "out to shoot Mexicans."

The transcripts of the trial were released after both these articles were written . Neither article addresses legal points. They do however throw in lots of hyperbole, like that Compean was "lying in wait" for Aldrete-Davila that day.

In the Border Patrol Case, the Best Defense Is a Good Offense
National Review Online ^ | February 9, 2007 6:45 AM | Andrew C. McCarthy
Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 5:22:17 PM by 1rudeboy
The Border-Patrol Two Deserve Jail (Despite the “hero” propaganda)
National Review ^ | 01/27/2007 | Andrew C. McCarthy
Posted on Monday, January 29, 2007 9:30:51 AM by SirLinksalot

To say that McCarthy "debunked" anything is just nonsense.