Brandon Mayfield's ordeal

[HuckleB]

Brandon Mayfield's ordeal

http://oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1085572891161310.xml

"T he bungled arrest of Brandon Mayfield is a low and troubling moment in the nation's war on terrorism. An honest mistake by law enforcement, coupled with faulty assumptions and aggressive use of an antiterror law, put an innocent American and his family through hell.

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The government must fully explain how the nation's premier fingerprint examiners got this wrong. Spanish law enforcement authorities warned the FBI three weeks before Mayfield's arrest that they did not think the fingerprint matched Mayfield's.

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It's frightening how certain the agency was about the match -- and thus about Mayfield's possible involvement in the bombings that killed 191 people and wounded 2,000.

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Mayfield's ordeal should prompt even more scrutiny of the government's use of the material witness law used since Sept. 11 to hold dozens of people suspected of links to terrorism."

Brandon Mayfield's ordeal

http://oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1085572891161310.xml

[bunk76]

1. I think...

it was an honest mistake.Of the million's and million's of people on this planet,they got a false positive on a former military officer
that defended accused muslim terrorists.A simple mistake.....move on,nothing to see here.

:evilgrin:

[yellowcanine]

3. good point - a lot of "coincidences" if it was an honest mistake. Or was

Dick Cheney looking over the shoulder of the fingerprint analyst saying, "I think you should look a little closer at this guy Mayfield's print. Are you sure it's not a match?"

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

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