EL PASO FBI CORRUPTION CASE UPDATE: Things continue to percolate in the Border media, but little of substance came come to light this past week. Which means that scores of people are running around like chickens unindicted co-conspirators with their heads cut off,

Unnamed co-conspirators are fighting back, according to the El Paso Times. We already know ELP lawyer Martie Jobe is feeling a little defamed this time of month. District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez filed a criminal complaint over the odious implications of Ketner’s Complaint “information,” a document that laid it all out better than a corpse at the mortuary.

What’s a health benefits plan company gotta do these days to keep a contract? Apparently more than scandal-plagued Access HealthSource, which is linked to the ongoing investigation.

Nothing to see here: Thomason Hospital suits want to assure the public that the hospital kids are alright. Thomason is tangentially linked to the FBI ELP corruption case as related to a bond underwriting contract, as well as with recently-disgraced bribe-ista Betti Flores, who was involved in that contract.

No longer available: Not the El Paso Times article on Robert “Bob” Jones family violence allegation, or his services as CEO of NCED, which is linked to the ongoing corruption case. The now-unavailable article states Jones allegedly hit his wife in the chest during an argument. Ah, well, here’s a link to the El Paso Police Department mug shot of Jones.

El Paso lawyer Mary Stillinger’s a sharp egg. She’d like to represent three people implicated (I’m guessing through Ketner’s Complaint “information”: EPISD Trustee Charles Roark; YISD Trustee Milton Duntley; and former COO of NCED (now ReadyOne Industries) Ernie Lopez. But the US Attorney’s Office (at least, those who haven’t been fired by the White House) asked a US District Court to prevent her from doing this due to conflict(s) of interest. Turns out, the Feds goofed. Naturally, it was an underling who gets the blame. Ahh, inept civil servants. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live with ‘em. I mean, the high-paid managers who fail to train said underlings.

MILITARY MATTERS: Don’t know whether these are true or not, but they sure are funny. 213 things Skippy learned not to do in the Army.

ON THE BORDER: The jail border, that is. The Senate is taking up the case of imprisoned USBP agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. They’re the ones who shot a Darwin Candidate Mexican drug smuggler in the hiney. They messed up in trying to hide the evidence in a crude, GED-achieving, scared 11B Army infantryman kind of way, but the complaint against them is mitigated by the heinous activity of federal prosecutors, who coddled and variously cajoled, befriended, and sexed said sore-buttocks narco-Mexican trafficker into giving testimony. There’s a reason why talented federal prosecutors leave often and soon enough for private practice.

VAST DEMOCRATIC CONSPIRACY: Have they forgotten elections are coming up? The Dems are shooting too early and while it’s a certainty that election day is on the Blackberry of every Democratic clown and her aide, they all seem too stupid to care, in the manner of tactical geniuses who can’t comprehend strategic second-order effects. This week it’s impeachment chatter. Last week it was hundreds of investigations launched against — exclusively — Republicans. One of the most notorious: revival of the ironically-named Fairness Doctrine, which is fair only to a certain segment of the population who might be called Feinsteinian in their hatred of a radio market that doesn’t parrot their views; and, generally, launching sexist and elitist attacks against their constituents.

The Democrats have been looking for another Watergate since 1972, and a chance to impeach nearly as long as Bill Clinton has been looking for extracurricular booty.

Maybe this is the beginning of that chance. Bon chance, Le Dems!