Border Patrol Scandal Update

Washington, DC (TLS). The Liberty Sphere has learned that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, intends to reveal documents that prove the illegal alien who was shot by two Border Patrol agents, resulting in lengthy prison terms for both, was involved in a second drug smuggling attempt even as he was granted immunity by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. According to published records revealed by WorldNetDaily News, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Department of Homeland Security possessed reports that show illegal alien Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila not only had smuggled drugs into the U.S. before, but was a suspect in yet another attempt to smuggle hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs into the country.

Yet U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton repeatedly claimed that the illegal alien was NOT a suspect under investigation for a second attempt at drug smuggling.

The jury in the trial of the two accused Border Patrol agents never received the information held by the DEA and the Department of Homeland Security--information that most assuredly would have demonstrated to the jury that the state's number one witness was totally lacking in credibility.

Had the jury known of this information, more than likely the two Border Patrol agents would have never been convicted and sent to prison.

At the very least this information is cause for a new trial of Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean. Thus, Rep. Rohrabacher will make public the documentation that the U.S. Government kept secret. The documentation will also highlight and underscore the fact that the Government lied in order to convict the two agents.

The fact that the government lied is actually a separate issue from the withholding of vital evidence from the defense and the jury. The latter is cause for a new trial. The former, however, is cause for an outright dismissal of the case and the release of the two men.

Department of Homeland Security Inspector-General Richard L. Skinner admitted to a Congressional subcommittee that he lied to that committee concerning the actions of the Ramos and Compean. Skinner had indicated to the committee that he had information that implicated the two men in felonies, information which was used during the trial to drag the reputations of the Ramos and Compean through the mud. Skinner had portrayed the two as 'bad cops' who thus deserved prosecution.

Skinner later admitted that he had no such information against Ramos and Compean.

Thus, the two Border Patrol agents were convicted under false pretenses, based upon evidence that does not exist. And this is reason enough for a full Presidential pardon and their release from prison.

But this is only the tip of the iceberg. There is a scandal of draconian proportions lurking here in this story. And the U.S. Government is up to its eyeballs in lies and deception. The sources of this graft needs to be routed out and prosecuted in order to preserve the integrity of the criminal justice system in this nation.