Thread: New Border Passing Documents Revealed

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New Border Passing Documents Revealed
By Bill Hahn
Created 2007-07-27 18:51


ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher reveals border passing documents kept from the Ramos and Compean jury.


Follow this link to the original source: "Glenn Beck Transcripts [1]"



COMMENTARY:
On the July 25, 2007, Glenn Beck Show on CNN Headline News, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher revealed documents he received that the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. attorney's office tried hard to keep him from having. The documents show the number of border passes given to Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, the drug smuggler in the Ramos and Compean Border Patrol agents case and when the passes were issued.


The documents point out that two drug deals had taken place when Mr. Davila used his border passes. The second time he was issued his pass, the Department of Justice had already been notified by the DEA that he had been involved in a drug shipment, but the pass was still issued to him. Rep. Rohrabacher contends that this evidence and more about the star prosecution witness had been kept from the jury, which resulted in Agents Ramos and Compean being found guilty and sentenced to jail.


The Congressman also claims he contacted the White House and tried to defuse the situation by asking the President to ask the judge to let the wrongly convicted agents out on bail or bond, pending their appeal. The White House initially told him that it was a "great idea," but the next day the White House issued a press release stating they were opposed to letting them out on bail and never followed up with the congressman.


Sam Antonio, National Immigration Spokesman for the John Birch Society, was also a guest on the July 25th show. Mr. Antonio pointed to the case to a general demoralizing of the very thinly spread U.S. Border Patrol and linked the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) President Bush had agreed to with Canada and Mexico in 2005 as the reason why the southern border is not being enforced. According to Mr. Antonio, Mexico's participation in the SPP is permitting it to influence U.S. border enforcement.


Of course, President Bush commuted Scooter Libby's sentence because he thought the 30-month jail sentence was "excessive." Weigh that against two Border Patrol agents doing their job and getting into a paperwork SNAFU that costs them 11 to 12 years of their lives.


Even Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein and Republican Senator John Cornyn of the Senate Judiciary Committee consider this excessive ... shouldn't the President?

Well, someone's butts are about to be hung. So I guess they better hurry up and cover their tracks by pretending they want these two out. That is what I think.