From the letter to Gaudioso:
Following the evacuation of our personnel in (Juárez), ICE agents, with
your concurrence, refused to immediately present the CS (Lalo) to
Mexican federal authorities so that his testimony could be used as the
probable cause necessary to arrest the corrupt police officials in (Juárez).
Your failure to present the CS to Mexican federal officials resulted in a
one-week delay before probable cause could be established to search for
the dead bodies. These officials told our Attaches in Mexico that they
would not have had to wait to discover the bodies prior to arresting the
corrupt officers. Now these dangerous killers are at large.
To make matters worse, you would not allow the CS to call
(Mexican state police Commander Miguel Loya Gallegos, an
alleged Santillan operative) so that Mexican federal authorities
could arrest him for his participation in the murders. You and the
prosecutor (Fielden) until last week refused our repeated requests
for direct access to the CS so that we could at least attempt to
resolve the threat.
In fact the prosecutor stated that she had ordered ICE personnel to
refuse DEA access to tapes of the CS, while expressing concern
regarding our (DEA) sharing of information with Mexican federal
authorities. You allowed a prosecutor to make an operational
decision that interfered with the investigation of a threat against the
lives of fellow U.S. federal agents and their families.
The Prosecutor Has No Clothes
Several sources within the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency
of ICE, confirmed that the informant Lalo was moved around frequently after DEA
was forced to evacuate its agents from Juarez and the full extent of his – and the
ICE agents’ and U.S. prosecutor’s – complicity in the murders became known to
DEA.
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