Still in short shrift mode here @twc central, so this very important post from GTB is up a day late. Read, then call your congresscritters, the White House and just about anyone else you think might be able to positively affect the situation. Send a link to this post to everyone on your email distro lists as well. I almost never (can’t remember a time I have done so) submit guest posts to Linkfests, but this needs to be read, so it’s getting “the treatment”.
Dirty Texas Politics Taint Border Patrol Agents’ Trial
I have to give huge kudos to Shawn Christopher Phillips, of the Wry & Coy Report, for compiling some of the least known and most misreported facts surrounding the case of the two Border Patrol Agents prosecuted for shooting a drug smuggler. Shawn has raised some very troubling questions surrounding the case – questions worth asking and investigating. He has also connected the dots in a way that the media has been unable (or unwilling) to do.
Shawn’s original research material can be found at www.patgray.com here and here. I have supplemented the accounts with further information from my own research and from Pat Gray’s radio show on KSEV, since he and his co-host, Edd Hendee have been investigating the anomalies surrounding this very muddled case.
I have taken the liberty of condensing Shawn’s material from several posts to place it into a rough timeline of events as they occurred. As well, I wanted to include information about some of the major players in this case, from the drug smuggler himself all the way up to U.S. Congressmen and Senators.
The central perpetrator in this travesty of justice is the U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who has old boy Texas connections from the judge overseeing the case all the way up to President George W. Bush. These connections, though not openly disclosed, have greatly impacted the case, as highly placed government officials look the other way while testimonies, evidence, and statements are manipulated behind the scenes.
