Jailed Border Guards Update

This is just to follow up the earlier posts about the jailed and convicted Border Patrol Agents. It seems some new information has came out in where, Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean.

It seems someone from the Department of Homeland Security mislead Congress. Actually it seems that they flat out LIED about both Border Agents -

The admission came during the testimony of DHS Inspector General Richard L. Skinner before the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, according to Michael Green, press secretary for Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas.

Culberson was questioning Skinner about a meeting DHS officials had Sept. 26..... DHS Inspector General's office asserted it had documentary evidence Ramos and Compean:

1. Confessed to knowingly shooting at an unarmed suspect;


2. stated during the interrogation they did not believe the suspect was a threat to them at the time of the shooting;


3. stated that day they "wanted to shoot a Mexican";


4. were belligerent to investigators;


5. destroyed evidence and lied to investigators.

Under questioning by Culberson, Skinner replied, "The person who told you that misinformed you."

"You lied to me and you lied to all of us," Culberson charged. "Your office tried to paint a picture of Ramos and Compean as dirty cops, More...

Watching Fox News interviews, I understand former Border Patrol agent Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos has made over 100 drug arrests along the border. Inmates were watching TV the other night and one recognized him from a clip on America's Most Wanted.

Later in the evening, as he was sleeping, Ramos stated -

"There were five Hispanic men with steel-toed boots – likely illegal aliens – who cussed me out in Spanish.

"They kicked me in the head, they kicked me all over the body. I'm all bruised and very sore," Ramos reportedly said, adding he bled from his left ear.

To add insult to injury, World Net Daily reports -

WND has obtained a Department of Homeland Security memo indicating Border Patrol agent Jose Compean made a complete, in-person verbal report to his supervisor at the scene immediately following the shooting incident for which he and colleague Ignacio Ramos are now in prison.

The May 15, 2005, report filed by DHS Special Agent Christopher Sanchez documents a conversation between Compean and his supervisor that explains the decision by all nine Border Patrol agents and supervisors on the scene not to file written reports.

These memos directly contradict the repeated statements of the prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, that agents Ramos and Compean filed false reports about the incident. More...

In the latest turn of events, White House spokesman, Tony Snow said "procedures to follow in considering any request or suggestion for a presidential pardon, and that's what is going on right now."

The Fort Worth Star Telegraph quotes President Bush as saying that he is bound by strict federal guidelines on pardons, and cannot immediately grant a pardon to Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean because, quote, 'there is a series of steps that are analyzed in order for the Justice Department to make a recommendation as to whether or not a president grants a pardon."

This is pretty upsetting that these guards were convicted with false information and lies. They now have to endure beatings and harassment by other inmates while "procedures" are followed.

These Border Agents should be released immediately! In light of the new information, it can be expected that no empaneled jury, of reasonably sound mind, would have returned a "guilty' verdict in this case had all the facts been presented. Actually, with the new facts, these men should have never even been charged with a crime.

The supervisors need to be fired and immediately arrested. The official form the DHS Inspector General's office that falsely implied they had documentation showing these guards broke the law should be fired and charged with a crime if any was committed.

If this is not a "Miscarriage of Justice", I don't know what is!

KING