Cover Up

The Framing of Ramos and Campean by Our Government and How it Started

 


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More Disturbing Facts About
U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton

Texas Deputy Imprisoned For Defending Himself From Illegal Aliens
Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez could get up to 10 years in prison for doing his thankless job after being prosecuted by the office of Bush-appointed US attorney Johnny Sutton.  #

U.S. Prosecutors Protect an Informant Who Killed Mexican Citizens, as Two DEA Agents Barely Escaped Alive
Both cases fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas – headed by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who is considered to be “wired” into the current Bush administration.  #

Ex-DEA El Paso Chief Slams U.S. Attorney Sutton Over “Murders Gov’t Could Have Prevented”
A recently retired, high-ranking DEA official is calling on Congress to investigate the role played by a U.S. Attorney in the cover-up of an informant’s participation in mass murder in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The DEA official, Sandalio Gonzalez, is pointing the finger squarely at Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney in San Antonio, Texas. He claims that had Sutton taken action sooner in the case, more than a dozen people might still be alive today. As a result, Gonzalez says Congress must act now to get to the bottom of what Sutton knew, and when he knew it.  #

Border patrol agent David Sipe, who had been found guilty of excessive force against an illegal alien and sentenced to prison back in 2001, has now been acquitted of that charge due to information and documentation that was being withheld by the prosecution for years. Turns out his attorney says the prosecution in the first trial suppressed evidence and lied about benefits given to "Alien" witnesses.  #


Government cover-up of border agents conviction case starting to unravel

Government cover-up exposed in border agents' conviction
 

Agents Who Testified Against Ramos and Compean Lied


Congressmen pursue truth in border agent case


Congressman Michael McCaul stone-walled while seeking the truth in border agent case


Cover-up? What cover-up?
Plenty stinks in the Ramos/Campean case


BUSH PARDONS FIVE DRUG DEALERS, IGNORES WRONGLY CONVICTED BORDER PATROL AGENTS

 


Border Patrol Agents Imprisoned for Doing Their Job
What a great example we set for those risking their lives to protect us!
Video


Border Patrol Agents to report to prison today. Judge rules they must serve while court considers appeals.

If you've followed this case, you know it stinks. There is no doubt a conspiracy to make an example out of these agents. And the stench begins to the top. This is a cover-up that must be uncovered.


Tom Tancredo on the two border agents and his run for the Presidency


Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez was indicted for an offense that basically read that an illegal was deprived of her rights protected by our Constitution.


Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations and criminal groups are the most influential and pervasive threats with respect to drug transportation and wholesale distribution in nearly every region of the country and continue to increase their involvement in the production, transportation, and distribution of most major illicit drugs.

Don't miss this video to understand the shear arrogance of this President. And here's another video and yet another video


Grassroots movement to help convicted border agents and Sheriff


THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
By “
Mark Andrew Dwyer”


Four National Guard troops retreated when confronted by armed border crossers from Mexico. The government gave them MEDALS for DOING WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO DO! In other words, don't stop the border agents and you'll get a medal, but try to apprehend the illegals and you'll go to jail.


U.S. Border Patrol Local 2544

"There are currently 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country by many estimates, but the real numbers could be much higher and the numbers increase every day because our borders are not secure (no matter what the politicians tell you - don't believe them for a second)."


A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border

Read this disturbing report prepared by The Majority Staff of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Then ask yourself, why is our government ignoring this report?


Congressman Dana Rohrbacher, talks with radio host Mike Gallagher  about his outrage over the case of two border patrol agents who have been sentenced to jail.


America's Most Wanted TV Program airs episode about the unfair legal treatment of the border patrol agents by the government


BUSH ESCALATES IMMIGRATION CRIME WAVE


 

Read the press release of the trial transcripts

The Facts:

U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean were put on trial after they allegedly shot Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks following a foot chase along the Texas-Mexico border. It is worth pointing out that the two agents are American citizens with Hispanic heritage, yet they are laying their lives on the line to keep Mexican invaders out of our country. The smuggler had fled a van the agents were pursuing; the van turned out to contain nearly $1 million worth of marijuana. Drug smuggler Aldrete-Davila fled to Mexico, but U.S. officials brought him back to the United States - with the promise of full immunity and medical treatment - if he testified against the agents. The agents were convicted and sentenced to 11 and 12 years in prison and they remain there.

Our Contention:

President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy. Despite what President Bush tells the public, he is in favor of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. The facts are clear once you put aside the smoke and mirrors. The Ramos/Compean story is just one more attempt by the Bush administration to keep our borders open by intimidating good border agents who want to do their jobs. President George W. Bush established the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America (aka The North American Union) with the nations of Mexico and Canada on March 23, 2005.

The Players:

U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean
The two border patrol agents sentenced to jail.

Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila
The drug dealer shot by the border agents.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez
Prior to serving at the Department of Justice, Gonzalez was commissioned as Counsel to President George W. Bush in January of 2001. Prior to serving in the White House, he served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. Before his appointment to the Texas Supreme Court in 1999, he served as Texas' 100th Secretary of State from December 2, 1997 to January 10, 1999. Among his many duties as Secretary of State, Gonzales was a senior advisor to then Governor Bush, chief elections officer, and the Governor's lead liaison on Mexico and border issues.

As governor, George W Bush brought Alberto Gonzales into his administration in 1994 as a senior adviser to the governor, chief elections officer, and the governor’s lead liaison on Mexican and border issues. Gonzales later became White House Counsel in 2000, when George Bush became President, and was eventually nominated by Bush for Attorney General of the United States. On November 24, 2004, Gonzales, got the backing of the National Council of La Raza:

The NCLR promotes driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, no immigration law enforcement by local and state police and amnesty programs broader than the administration’s proposal.

La Raza supports legislation such as the Civil Liberties Restoration Act, which would roll back policies adopted after Sept. 11 designed to protect national security. It supports the “DREAM Act,” which would mandate states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens” thus, providing them with benefits not available to U.S. citizens from other states.

The group opposes the “Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2003” and the “Homeland Security Enhancement Act” would give state and local police officers the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.

The group also supports legislation to ensure illegal immigrants’ ability to obtain driver’s licenses.

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton
Sutton was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. On March 29th, 2006, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales named U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton to serve as chair for the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys.  He was the lead prosecutor of the two border agents sentenced to jail.

Assistant United States Attorney Debra P. Kanof
Kanof and Jose Luis Gonzalez of Sutton's office are prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.

Judge Kathleen Cardone
Cardone was appointed by President George W. Bush. She refused to grant a stay to keep the two border agents out of jail until the appeal.

Texas Congressman Sylvestre Reyes
Former Border Patrol chief in Texas and Congressman for the area that represents the two agents
actually came out in favor of the government's prosecution of these two agents. Reyes is a past Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and currently serves as the Chair of the CHC’s International Relations Task Force. In addition, he is a member of the U.S.-Mexico Interparliamentary Group. Reyes was selected by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Polosi to head the House Intelligence Committee. Polosi is following through on her pledge to reflect more diversity in key appointments. The selection of Reyes may help Democrats solidify existing, and attract additional, support from Hispanic-Americans.

Inspector General Richard Skinner
Inspector General of the Homeland Security Department appointed by President Bush. For months he refused to release documents of the case to Congressmen. After the documents were finally obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Skinner finally admitted under oath that the department had lied about the facts of the case.

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff
On February 15, 2005, Judge Michael Chertoff was sworn in as the second Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Chertoff formerly served as United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He was previously confirmed by the Senate to serve in the Bush Administration as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice.

Rene Sanchez
The Border Patrol agent
from Wilcox, Arizona that brought the case to Christopher Sanchez, investigator with the department's Office of Inspector General. Rene Sanchez is son-in-law of Gregoria Toquinto.

Christopher Sanchez
An investigator with the department's Office of Inspector General. Also the main investigator in the Ramos/Campean case.

Marcadia Aldrete-Davila
Mother of drug dealer
Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila.

Gregoria Toquinto
Arizona Border Agent Rene Sanchez's mother-in-law.

Mexican Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca
He and his counterpart U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez are in almost constant contact, and just recently Mexico’s Secretary for Public Security Eduardo Medina Mora spoke to Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI, to discuss methods of better cooperation in law enforcement.

Gourley, Torres and Woods
Three of the members of the jury that convicted the agents but later gave sworn testimony that their decision of guilty was coerced by the jury foreman.

Mary Stillinger
Lawyer for one of the agents,
Ignacio Ramos.

Four National Guard Troops
Four National Guard troops retreated when confronted by armed border crossers from Mexico. The government gave them MEDALS for DOING WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO DO! In other words, don't stop the border agents and you'll get a medal, but try to apprehend the illegals and you'll go to jail.

U.S. Representative Michael McCaul
10th District of Texas

TJ Bonner
President of the National Border Patrol Council

Rep. Duncan Hunter
Congressman from California who sponsored legislation for a Presidential Pardon for the two agents

Senator John Cornyn
John Cornyn, a Republican Senator from Texas, refused to sign a petition presented by Texas Congressman Ted Poe requesting that the Border Patrol agents be released on bond pending their appeal. He has also refused to look at the case further. Cornyn is widely considered to be a very close Senate ally for the current President Bush, sits on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration. During Bush's governorship, John Cornyn was his Attorney General.

The Frame-up:

Ramos is puzzled as to why, more than two weeks after the shooting, a Department of Homeland Security investigator, Christopher Sanchez -- acting on a tip from a Border Patrol agent in Arizona, Rene Sanchez -- tracked down drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila in Mexico, offering him immunity if he testified against the two agents who allegedly shot at him.

"Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila had told Border Patrol agent Rene Sanchez that his friends had told him they should put together a hunting party and go shoot some Border Patrol agents in revenge for them shooting Osbaldo," reads a memo written by Christopher Sanchez, an investigator with the department's Office of Inspector General. "Osbaldo advised Rene Sanchez that he told his friends he was not interested in going after the Border Patrol agents and getting in more trouble."

In the same Homeland Security memo, Christopher Sanchez outlines how the investigation into Ramos and Compean was initiated.

On March 10, 2005, Christopher Sanchez received a telephone call from Border Patrol agent Rene Sanchez of Wilcox, Arizona, who told the agent about Aldrete-Davila's encounter with Ramos and Compean.

According to the document, Rene Sanchez stated "that Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila's mother, Marcadia Aldrete-Davila, contacted Rene Sanchez's mother-in-law, Gregoria Toquinto, and advised her about the Border Patrol agents shooting Aldrete-Davila. Toquinto told her son-in-law, Rene Sanchez, of the incident, and he spoke to Osbaldo via a telephone call."

During the trial, the connection between Rene Sanchez and Aldrete-Davila confused the Ramos family, and "we questioned how an agent from Arizona would know or want to defend a drug smuggler from Mexico," said Monica Ramos.

Kanof bristled when asked about the Rene Sanchez/Aldrete-Davila connection.

"It's an unconscionable accusation that Sanchez is associated with a drug dealer," she said. "Most Border Patrol agents who are Hispanic have family from Mexico. He was born in the U.S. and raised in Mexico and came back to do high school and later became an agent."

The Ramoses also contend Aldrete-Davila's story changed several times.

According to the memo, Aldrete-Davila told investigators the agents shot him in the buttocks when he was trying to enter the country illegally from Mexico. But according to Aldrete-Davila's later testimony and that of the agents, he was shot after trying to evade the agents upon his re-entry into Mexico.

The memo never was disclosed to the jury.

Aldrete-Davila is suing the Border Patrol for $5 million for violating his civil rights.

Ramos also had drug interdiction training from the Drug Enforcement Agency and qualified as a Task Force Officer with the Border Patrol. But Ramos' training in narcotics -- as well as the numerous credentials he had received for taking Border Patrol field training classes -- was not admissible during the trial, he said.

The Pursuit of Truth:

TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing border agents, said the Border Patrol's official pursuit policy handcuffs agents in the field. He also sees the prosecution of Ramos and Compean as part of a larger effort by the federal government.

"The administration is trying to intimidate front-line agents from doing their job," he added. "If they can't do it administratively, they'll do it with trumped-up criminal charges.

"Moreover, the specter of improprieties in the prosecution of this case raises serious concerns that demand an immediate, thorough and impartial investigation."

The pair has found support for a presidential pardon in the form of legislation sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-CA, and in petitions with more than 250,000 signatures.

"I have relentlessly requested information detailing the facts surrounding this case from both the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General and the Department of Justice," according to Hunter. He has yet to get them.

U.S. Representative Michael McCaul
10th District of Texas

McCaul's letter. "To date, both agencies have defied the will of Congress and refused to cooperate meaningfully with my efforts to uncover the truth."

McCaul also complained that final transcripts of Ramos' and Compean's trial were not available through the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas, which prosecuted the agents.

Three members of the jury that convicted two former El Paso Border Patrol agents of shooting a drug smuggler in the buttocks last year said they were misled into finding them guilty, according to a motion filed two days before the agents are to be sentenced. Mary Stillinger, the lawyer for one of the agents, Ignacio Ramos, thought the jurors’ statements should be grounds for setting the verdict aside and ordering a new trial for Ramos and fellow agent Jose Alonso Compean.

I did not think the defendants were guilty of the assaults and civil rights violations,” Woods wrote in a sworn affidavit. Compean and Ramos were found guilty of assault with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, a civil-rights charge and obstruction of justice in the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila near Fabens.

Stillinger said she saw some jurors crying after the guilty verdict and later got in touch with them.

Gourley, a Northeast special- education teacher, and Torres said in affidavits that the foreman of the jury told them that Judge Cardone would not accept a hung jury. And Woods said an affidavit that she heard the same statement but could not remember which juror said it.

“Essentially … they conceded their votes, believing that they did not have the option to stick to their guns and prevent a unanimous verdict,” Stillinger wrote in the motion.

Gourley said that he thought the foreman was relating something he heard directly from the judge, and when he found no mention on hung juries in the court’s printed instructions, “I had no reason to doubt the foreman,” he said in the affidavit.

After the trial, Gourley told reporters that he felt pressured by other jurors who wanted to resume their normal lives after more than two weeks of trial. He also said he thought 10 years in prison was a grossly inappropriate punishment for the agents.

“Had we had the option of a hung jury, I truly believe the outcome may have been different,” he said in the affidavit.

Flores said in her affidavit that she believed the foreman because, “he was very experienced in serving on juries. I felt like he knew something about the judge that we did not know. I did not think that Mr. Ramos or Mr. Compean was guilty of the assaults and civil rights violations.”

The third juror, Woods, wrote in an affidavit, “I don’t remember exactly what it was that made me change my vote to guilty on these charges, but I know I was very influenced by my belief, based on the other juror’s statement, that we could not have a hung jury. I think I might not have changed my vote to guilty if I had known that was an option.”

One other interesting fact: The drug smuggler himself was expected to show up in court. There had been a motion filed for him to do that. Instead, it was just his attorney, the attorney who's representing him in his $5 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, and the drug smuggler's attorney complained that the agents never apologized for shooting the drug smuggler.

Gonzalez refused to intervene in the case of the two border agents.

Bush refuses to even consider a pardon and will not even respond to over 80 Congressmen who have asked for a review of the case.

The Conclusion:

Now, let's see if I've got this right:

1. In 2005 Bush covertly signs an agreement with leaders in Mexico and Canada to begin plans to form a union of the three countries without any approval from government bodies or the American people. This agreement, if implemented, would eventually lead to open borders between the countries.
2. Attorney General Gonzalez has a long past political relationship with Bush and is nominated by Bush for Attorney General.
3. Gonzalez gives Lead Defense Attorney Sutton (also nominated by Bush) free reins to go ahead to prosecute the two agents and later refuses to intervene.
4. Sutton and his Assistant Prosecutors relentlessly pursue the prosecution of the agents, blocking key defense testimony.
5. Judge
Cardone who was also nominated by Bush, refuses to grant a stay to keep the agents out of jail.
6. Border agents are convicted and sentenced to 11 and 12 years in prison for doing their jobs of protecting the US border and trying to apprehend a drug dealer.
7. Three members of the jury reveal the Jury Foreman led them to believe they would have to change their votes to guilty.
8. National Guard troops are given medals for leaving armed border crossers alone and retreating from conflict.
9. Bush accuses Minutemen who are trying to help protect the border of being vigilantes.
10. Bush refuses to pardon the agents and ignores multiple requests from over 80 Congressmen FROM HIS OWN PARTY.
11. Inspector General Richard Skinner (appointed by Bush) refuses to turn over documents of the trial after months of requests from powerful Congressmen.
12. Finally, only after getting documents from the trial by the Freedom of Information Act does Inspector General Richard Skinner admit under oath to Rep. John Culberson that the Department of Homeland Security officials lied about the facts of the case.

 

Is it me or does it seem that this whole stinking mess leads right back to the White House through a trail of "good buddies"?

I believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. Quite a few Congressmen are mighty pissed and plan to get to the bottom of this mess. I believe we'll see some top officials fired and charges brought against many others. I hope the two agents will be exonerated and receive compensation for the financial and emotional trauma they have been through at the hands of our elected officials with their own greedy agenda.

Bush's pet project is the North American Union which would unite the US with Mexico and Canada. The heads of the three countries met and signed a pact in 2005. Bush clearly does not want the borders to be closed, despite the fact that he signed a bill to build 700 miles of fence. He knew damn well the Democrats would not fund it, but the action looked like he was doing something about the problem. A few companies were raided and illegal workers were found. Looks like he was doing something. He ordered 6000 National Guard to the border (even though it turns out they are powerless). Looks good. When four Guardsmen were confronted by armed men with Kevlar vests, they retreated "like they were ordered to do". Then the four were given medals for "doing exactly like they were ordered to do". This action expressed to our law enforcement officers that they had better not confront border crossers. Ramos and Campean were viciously persecuted for their actions confronting a drug dealer. This action reinforced Bush's plan to "leave border crossers alone or face prosecution".

The reason Bush pardoned so many drug dealers around Christmas time is because wanted to show the Mexican government he is willing to cooperate with them... the same reason our government would not interfere with the extradition of Dog the Bounty Hunter when Mexico requested it and our citizens loudly opposed the extradition. (If you don't recall, Dog went to Mexico and captured a dangerous rapist to bring back to the US for trial.) Bush wants total cooperation between US and Mexico. Suddenly Mexico's new President is extremely concerned with violence and drugs in his country and has disarmed many crooked police agencies such as in Tijuana. Bush knows that there will be an outcry by our people if borders are opened while violence and drug dealing is at epidemic proportions in Mexico. All a plan to advance the North American Union.

For more information about the Department of Homeland Security, read:
Corruption, crime inside Homeland Security

Get more details about the Border Agent case at:
http://frontpage.americandaughter.com/?p=1119

http://www.patgray.com/content/view/250/14/

http://www.patgray.com/content/view/256/14/

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54199

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54196

 

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton Is Plugged Into Power

Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney in San Antonio, Texas, who now finds himself in the hot seat over the ongoing cover-up in the House of Death mass murders, is well connected to the seat of power in this country.

Sutton has close ties to President George W. Bush as well as to U.S. Attorney General and possible Supreme Court candidate Alberto Gonzales – who is no relation to Sandalio Gonzalez, th e former high-ranking DEA official who is calling for a congressional investigation of Sutton’s actions in the House of Death case.

Veteran DEA agent Gonzalez has accused Sutton of retaliating against him for blowing the whistle on U.S. law enforcers’ complicity in the narco-related murders of a dozen people in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Sutton, a former assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas, hitched his star to the Bush political machine in 1995, when he was named the Criminal Justice Policy Director for then-Governor Bush. He served in that post until 2000, when Bush was elected president. In the wake of Bush’s victory, Sutton was named associated deputy attorney general at DOJ in Washington, D.C., and also served as a policy coordinator for the Bush-Cheney presidential transition team.

In late October of 2001, Sutton was appointed by Bush to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio. The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment a month later.

So Sutton does indeed have friends in high places, including his current boss at the Department of Justice (DOJ).

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

San Antonio native Alberto Gonzales also skyrocketed into the big time on the coattails of the Bush machine. Like Sutton, Gonzales also practiced law in Harris County (Houston) prior to joining Gov. Bush’s staff.

Gonzales served as general counsel and a senior advisor to Gov. Bush while Sutton also was on the governor’s staff as a legal advisor. After Bush was elected president in 2000, Gonzales was upgraded to White House Counsel, a position he held until February of this year, when he became the major domo at DOJ – and now is even considered a candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court Justice vacancy being created by Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement.

Despite the allegations about a cover-up in the House of Death case, Attorney General Gonzales recently appointed Sutton to the post of vice chairman of his Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys, which plays a key role in determining DOJ policies and programs.