Posted on 05/20/2004 4:05:44 PM PDT by rwfromkansas
False information from Spain perhaps?
Another FBI #%&* up?
I am really getting leery of these guys.
J. Goebbels
In light of recent events, a rather unfortunate turn of word.
So you are saying he is guilty?
I had heard he had not gone to Spain so the speculation centered on different scenarios of how the bag with fingerprint ended up there.
Alright....looks like the FBI says the prints were of somebody else, and it is the only thing that links him to Madrid:
"Thursday, Spanish police said that the fingerprints were actually those of a man from Algeria, identified as Ouhnane Daoud, who remains at large.
Spanish police would not comment when asked whether the development fully exonerated Mayfield, but U.S. officials had told NBC News earlier Thursday that the prints were the only information that could link him to the bag."
From: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5024867/
Odd they don't feel free to proclaim his innocence far and wide after his reputation has been through the ringer...
Yes...after I posted that I realized how sad that phrase is when you think of what that poor man went through being killed by those Iraqi's in a horrid manner...
I can't believe you could "mix up" fingerprint matching.
Well, I didn't believe it until now.
I am rather stunned....I remember being taught we all have unique prints that are so different that you can't ever get them mixed up.
Apparently with the FBI and Spanish authorities on the case, you can.
That is scary...
Well, we expect the head to roll after the use of a razor sword, not a butter knife like Berg good grief.
Figuratively speaking.
Figuratively speaking.
It was Spain who fingered him originally through Interpol.
The FBI had him under surveillance and did not arrest.
A Spaniard then broke the classified Intel rules and the FBI had to arrest, as they would have been criticized roundly if they did not.
Then for some strange reason, the Spanish backed away from this, leaving the FBI holding the bag. Apparently, the facts here are getting lost in the blame America first party.
He has been cleared. The whole thing stinks, but we did not cause the stink. They did.
Spain would have known nothing had the FBI not run a match against its database. Unless FBI is now sharing American fingerprint databases with Spain (shudder).
OK, so what does Interpol do. Spain submits a fingerprint and an answer comes back from any country who says it has a match? Why is the USA offering its whole fingerprint database up to Interpol? (Scary)
The reason seems to be they found a better match to some other unsavory character they knew about.
We need to furnish Spain with some Crays.
What I've been reading lately is that fingerprints are not that accurate. Kind of surprised me. Apparently it's up to the judgment of whoever's analyzing them. DNA might be the only truly accurate evidence.
That is correct. And fingerprint evidence has never been foolproof when it's only a partial or somewhat degraded.
Yes, I feel sorry for anyone who is arrested on evidence that doesn't hold up. But he lost one week of his life in jail. Sheesh. We're in a war, folks.
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