The Daily News is stating their own personal opinion as fact, as the so-called mainstream press so frequently does. It's true that Mayfield has been freed for now, however, this is yet a far cry from "he had nothing to do with it". There are still gag orders in place all around, a pending grand jury which may be weighing an indictment, and the ticklish little matter of exactly how his fingerprints ended up on a bag full of detonators in Spain.
That's the impression I get. So are the fingerprints still his, or was that a misidentification?