[Protect the Bill of Rights]

There were a number of things that were not analyzed by the SBI lab," Ekstrand said. "I'm trying to match up what's what. We still need a medical report so we'll know exactly how many swabs were taken and who analyzed them."

This should be cause for alarm--there is a protocol from SANE to SBI. I find it hard to believe the SBI did not test a vaginal swab if the swab was with everything else.

And it would have to be. Each step is dictated by the step before it. The nurse cannot willy nilly skip steps.

Further, each step is documented. Forget the reports, if I was on the defense team, I would get a copy of the hospital chart yesterday.

One last thing--Nifong better not try to blame it on the nurse or I will have to come to Durham and rip him a new one.

[Alia]

Thank you very much for laying that process and procedure out with clarity and detail.

It's really bugging me that "no semen" swab? And now? A semen swab?.. Given all I've looked into since onset of this case.. somewhere I hear a big "Blame Bush" coming. I hear the hoary feminist harpies warming up their screech vocals.

See, the "rape" happened March 14 (early hours, alleged). On March 13th, President Bush signed a huge package (big) to deal with the backlog of DNA testing, and to IMPROVE THE HANDLING PROCEDURES. There was little to no MSM news coverage of this at all.

However, Project Innocence declares that lots of time DNA stuff gets messed up and because the techies aren't trained very well.

Oh boy....