US will pay $2 million and apologize for terror arrest

[civildisoBDence]

Brandon Mayfield, a Portland attorney arrested after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has reportedly settled out of court for $2 million and an official apology.

Here's the story at CNN

Acording to CNN, "The FBI identified Mayfield's fingerprint on a blue plastic bag containing detonators found in a van used by the bombers. However, the FBI's fingerprint identification was wrong and Mayfield was released several days later.

Mayfield charged that he was a victim of profiling because the Portland-area attorney was a Muslim convert. He and his family later sued the U.S. government for damages."

The question is, how did the FBI stumble on Mayfield? Are we supposed to believe that the FBI's fingerprint database just happened to accidentally pull up Mayfeilds's prints???

It could well be that Mayfield was already under some kind of surveillance, like NSA wiretapping, or some kind of profiling, and that after the Madrid bombings, he became a target of the investigation.

It will be years, probably decades, before all the lawsuits filed as a result of the Bush administration's violations of the Constitution are settled. This is just the beginning.

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[Parche]

1. good news

Great news for him, this is local here in Portland Oregon
We need to win all of these cases

[symbolman]

2. I thought that you couldn't sue the govt

apparently I'm wrong..

Wow, actual justice.. there seems to be a lot of that going around lately, the Federalists must be slipping :)