Update on Ramos and Compean 7/19/07
by James Buchanan
The John and Ken show reported that corrupt prosecutor Johnny Sutton (who hid key evidence beneficial to the defense of Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean) was grilled by the Senate. Senator Dianne Feinstein was surprisingly harsh toward Sutton and sympathetic toward the Border Patrol agents. (She was probably trying to rehabilitate her reputation after getting hundreds of thousands of angry calls over the Amnesty Bill.)
Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were railroaded into prison by Bush appointee Johnny Sutton. Key evidence was illegally suppressed and the Border Patrol agents got ten years on trumped up charges.
What exactly did these agents do that merited a ten year sentence? They fired in self defense after spotting a gun in the hand of a drug smuggler, who had a one million dollar load of drugs. The drug smuggler Osvaldo Davila escaped across the border and agents Ramos and Compean did not want to fill out the reams of paperwork required for firing their guns when it wasn’t clear they had even hit anyone.
In the eyes of Johnny Sutton, not filling out federal paperwork and wounding a drug smuggler is apparently a greater crime than smuggling a million dollars worth of drugs. The drug smuggler Osvaldo Davila, who was shot, was granted immunity and given a free pass to cross back into the border into the US and to testify against the border patrol agents. Not too surprisingly, Davila smuggled another load of drugs across the border, and prosecutor Sutton and his allies forbid any investigation into the smuggling of this second load of drugs by Davila.
Key evidence was withheld at the trial such as the fact that Davila was a drug smuggler, and therefore was very likely to be armed since he was in possession of one million dollars worth of drugs and would have had a strong motivation to kill the two border patrol agents.
The Senate committee is recommending that President Bush commute the sentence of Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean. Bush was pretty quick to give his partner in crime, Scooter Libby, a pardon for obstructing justice and lying in the Plame-gate scandal. Patriots all across America have been demanding that Bush give a pardon to Ramos and Compean, especially now in light of the Scooter Libby Pardon.
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