http://seaspook.blogspot.com/2007/01/dh ... -some.html

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
DHS and the Justice Department Have Some Serious 'Splain'in To Do
This is smelling worse all the time. I stated previously in Border Agents Sent To Prison - Political Correctness Trumps Justice that this case appeared to me to be enforcement of a political agenda and these Border Patrol Agents were being used as scape goats for aggressively performing a duty which politicians do not want performed.

In my previous post I alleged that "this outrage starts and ends with George W. Bush. This a law enforcement matter and he made it a political injustice". I'm not so sure of that any more. While I don't think he has a problem with keeping the Border Patrol from doing their job, I think this may be yet another case of agencies in this Administration being manipulated by leftover Clinton appointees working their own personal, liberal political agendas.

The State Department, CIA, Justice Department, FBI, and apparently DHS are filled with these people who seem to be able to run their own rogue operations and agendas with impunity and no fear of consequences. Here is just one example.

If President Bush is incompetent as liberal politicans constantly accuse, it is his inability to control the agencies within his own administration. They constantly defy and undermine his policies and leak classified and damaging information on a regular basis and nothing is ever done about it.

Excerpts from WorldNetDaily:

"Johnny Sutton and his assistants are guilty of malicious prosecution," Ramirez charged to WND. "The prosecutors lied to the jury and he twisted evidence to make it fit his case. And when he couldn't twist the evidence, the government demanded that the court seal evidence which would have been exculpatory to the defense."

"I am very aware and I am accusing Mr. Sutton of a felony," Ramirez told WND, "but I am basing my conclusion on the evidence I have examined in this case and the refusal by the government to provide evidence to substantiate its claim to the Congress and the American people." .............

"Back on Sept. 26, 2006, officials from the DHS Office of Inspector General made serious allegations against both agents Ramos and Compean to four members of Congress from the Texas delegation," Ramirez said. "The Inspector General has subsequently refused to provide their evidence to substantiate their claims to Congress. So I am also accusing the DHS Office of Inspector General of making false statements to Congress in order to prevent a congressional inquiry. I am asking the U.S. Congress to subpoena all documents pertaining to this case including the full transcripts, sealed testimony, and the sealed indictment against Aldrete-Davila in order to get to the truth of this case once and for all." ..........

"For some unexplained reason, U.S. Attorney Sutton had the ballistics test performed by the Texas Department of Public Safety in El Paso, rather than by the FBI," he said. "This was a federal issue that should have gone to the FBI and only to the FBI. The Texas Department of Public Safety had no business running a ballistics report on a federal case. The FBI handles all shooting incidents, whether it involves assaults or otherwise, concerning federal agents. DPS should have refused the case and demanded that the bullet be picked up by the FBI for analysis..........

"The problem was that the ballistics report did not match the bullet to Ramos' gun," Ramirez said. "The ballistics report said the bullet could have been fired by any one of four different makes of gun. So, the affidavit of complaint against Ramos and Compean made a statement that was not substantiated by the ballistics report. That is a big problem for the prosecution. Their evidence does not support their accusation." ..........

The Army doctor's description of the wound directly contradicts U.S. Attorney Sutton's repeated claim that agents Ramos and Compean shot Aldrete-Davila in the back. The doctor clearly stated that the wound he observed was consistent with Aldrete-Davila turning to assume a "bladed position" with his left arm extended back toward the officers. This corroborates agent Ramos and Compean's claim they observed Aldrete-Davila turning back toward them while fleeing, extending his arm and holding an object in his hand that they took to be a weapon. .......

WND is left to ask the following questions, which the Texas DPS ballistics analysis does not resolve:

How did Aldrete-Davila continue running far enough to cross the Rio Grande back into Mexico after he had been hit by a round that passed through his left buttock from the side and damaged his urethra before lodging in his right thigh?

How do we know that the bullet extracted from Aldrete-Davila could not
have been fired into him during an unrelated incident in Mexico subsequent to Feb. 17, 2005, by a weapon among those of the type described in Correa's report?

Conceivably, agents Ramos and Compean did not hit fleeing drug smuggler Aldrete-Davila on Feb. 17, 2005, despite firing multiple rounds at him.

"Johnny Sutton and his office have intentionally distorted and misrepresented the facts in this case," Ramirez charged. "There's something clearly wrong in the federal prosecutor's office in El Paso. The Ramos and Compean case is a witch hunt. Every law enforcement agent on the border from Border Patrol agents to ICE agents to deputy sheriffs and sheriffs have gotten the message."

What's the message, WND asked?

"The message is simple," Ramirez replied. "Enforce our drug laws aggressively on the border and you risk going to jail, not the drug dealers. We have a drug war going on along the Texas border and the U.S. government has backed off to the benefit of the drug lords.