Portland, Oregon-AP -- An Oregon lawyer who has been linked to the train bombings in Spain has been released from prison.
U-S authorities had said the fingerprints found on a bag near the bombing site belonged to Brandon Mayfield. But Spain now says the prints are that of an Algerian.
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On this they can throw a guy into jail for a week. Not looking good...
It is a black eye for the FBI.
Not much of anything surrounding this incident has looked good. They put a guy in jail for a week and then say it was a mistake (I thought fingerprints were supposed to be foolproof nowadays). And dozens of people here on Free Republic gleefully slander him as a terrorist. When the government can arrest anyone on nothing at all something is seriously out of whack Patriot-Act-wise.
And there was a thread a little while back saying that the Senate is debating a treaty for expedited extradition of suspects to Britain, a treaty which knows no statute of limitations. Irish Americans who have family ties to anti-British rebels in Ireland are up in arms about this, as you can imagine.
I am not sure I follow you here. Are you saying that we should no longer investigate people? Why because they might be offended? He was proven innocent and he was released. Isn this not better then losing a city block? Or perhaps a whole city?
Not sure how the fingerprint mixup happen. I am releived that we still have inteligence groups working to make sure we are safe.