Thread: Judicial Watch Seeks DHS, DOJ, State Docs in Compean-Ramos

Judicial Watch Seeks DHS, DOJ, State Docs in Compean-Ramos Case



Files Open Records Lawsuit Seeking Documents Related to Mexican Drug
Smuggler Who Testified Against Two Border Patrol Agents

WASHINGTON, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the
public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government
corruption, announced today that it has filed a new open records lawsuit
against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of
Justice and the U.S. Department of State (Judicial Watch, Inc. v.
Department of Homeland Security, et al., #1:07-cv-00506(RJL)). The lawsuit,
filed on March 16, 2007 in the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia, asks the court to compel the government agencies to
comply with Judicial Watch's January 24, 2007 Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request seeking records regarding the immunity and medical treatment
given to Mexican drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete- Davila, who was shot and
wounded by U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean
in a 2005 drug-related incident.
Judicial Watch's FOIA lawsuit seeks all communications between the
three government agencies and the agencies and representatives of the
Government of Mexico, as well as records pertaining to the participation of
U.S. government personnel in coordinating the return of Aldrete-Davila to
the United States for medical treatment, meetings with federal
investigators and to testify in court. U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio
"Nacho" Ramos and Joe Alonso Compean were jailed in January 2007 after
shooting and wounding Aldrete-Davis, who was allegedly attempting to
smuggle 750 pounds of marijuana into the United States. Following the
incident, the U.S. government filed charges against the two agents, while
granting full immunity to Aldrete-Davis to testify against them.
"We are interested in learning about any deals brokered between the
U.S. and Mexico following the shooting incident in 2005," said Judicial
Watch President Tom Fitton. "Given the public and congressional controversy
surrounding the case, the more the American people know about what
happened, the better."
In 2006, Judicial Watch uncovered documents that detail the chaotic and
dangerous nature of the U.S. border with Mexico. The records, obtained by
the Department of Homeland Security, describe incidents involving shots
fired on both sides of the border, unmarked Mexican helicopters invading
U.S. airspace, drug smuggling, and confrontations between U.S. Border
Patrol agents and armed members of the Mexican military.
Judicial Watch's lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security, et
al., can be found at http://www.judicialwatch.org.


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By the time they get them , everything important will be blacked out!!