I've been over to GOPUSA. They've been discussing the Ramos-Compean situation as it evolves. Here's a couple of articles that I believe everyone should know about.
Cover-Up Alleged After Botched Cross-Border Operation
By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
February 28, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - A paid Mexican informer for the U.S. government who worked in an undercover operation targeting a major narcotics cartel allegedly went off the rails and was involved in more than a dozen murders.
Amid allegations of a bungled investigation and an accompanying cover-up, at least one member of Congress is calling for hearings into the matter (see related story).
Guillermo Ramirez Peyro is now fighting an attempt by the U.S. government to deport him and said he fears for his life at the hands of the cartel should he be sent back to Mexico.
Statements from key players and documents before court shed light on a drama involving an out-of-control operative, dangerous druglords, crooked Mexican police, and a serious dispute between U.S. government agencies.
Relatives of five people allegedly killed by the cartel in the Mexican town of Juarez - directly across the border from El Paso, Texas - have brought a wrongful death suit against the U.S. federal government.
The suit, filed in Texas last September, cited government documents and contains claims that Ramirez had knowledge of or participated in 13 murders committed by the cartel - murders the claimants said the federal authorities could have and should have stopped.
Ramirez himself has admitted only to knowledge of the murders, two of which he says he witnessed.
Should his appeal against deportation fail, Ramirez's removal from the country would rob the lawsuit's plaintiffs of a key witness.
In the view of a retired top Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, that's exactly what is intended by those who are pushing for the former informer's deportation.
"He would be the key witness," ex-agent Sandalio Gonzalez told Cybercast News Service. "What else could it be [but a cover-up]? They have protected him all the way. Now they want to get him killed."
U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, whose office supervised the investigation, declined to speak about the matter since it is in litigation. Sutton is the same federal prosecutor who has drawn national attention for his role in the controversial prosecution of two U.S. Border Patrol agents who shot an illegal immigrant attempting to smuggle drugs across the border.
Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200702/NAT20070228c.html
National Border Council's Rebuttal to Sutton's Statements
http://rohrabacher.house.go v/Uploa...o_s utton.pdf
And here's another
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200702/NAT20070228b.html
