What Is Our Government Hiding In The Prosecution of Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean?
The government watchdog group known as Judicial Watch recently filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department, for that agency´s failure to turn over certain documents related to the prosecution of Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean. The suit comes after the government refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for documents which detailed the agreement made between the governments of Mexico and the United States, which allowed drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila to return to this country to actually testify against Ramos and Compean. The FOIA request was filed by Judicial Watch on April 17, 2008. The government failed to respond within their own guidelines of 20 days, nor have they since. The drug smuggler (Aldrete-Davila) was given immunity from prosecution, free medical care at a U.S. Army hospital, as well as free access back and forth across the U.S.-Mexican border. During this time, he used that access to bring at least one more load of drugs across the b
