Posted on 06/01/2004 11:04:27 AM PDT by Willie Green
The most recent examples of FBI gross incompetence -- its "experts" misreading a fingerprint in one case and a palm print in another -- are more reminders that the agency continues to redefine ham-handed.
Brandon Mayfield was jailed for 14 days last month because the FBI was 100 percent certain that his fingerprint was on a bag of detonators at the Madrid train bombing site that killed 191 people in March.
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Are you sure you're not Wille RED?
He's a watermelon. Green on the outside, commie red on the inside.
He supports light rail too... the horror.
Bad FBI evidence also turned up in the Martha Stewart case.
Guess how often it's bad in low profile cases.
And if you're indicted in a low profile case and can't afford your own criminalists to reexamine the evidence, and that's the vast majority of cases, you are doomed.
Past time 'mistakes' like this were made Felony Stupid.
Agents make an obvious screw up and send someone to jail, they should have to do the same time he was sentanced to when the errors are found.
These clowns don't really try, because they aren't usually acountable.
So9
Bump.
How dare you post such a slanderous article trashing our courageous federal law enforcement, and by implication, our godly President Bush. And in the middle of our war on terrorism? We don't allow that crap on this website anymore...doncha know. Government is GOOD Willie, and BIG GOVERNMENT is even better. All that conservatism talk is just that...quaint talk. Conservatism is so passe these days Willie...You may not like the neo-con agenda. But then, you may not be as "progressive" as some of our newer members. Republican Government=Good Government.
http://www.sover.net/~nichael/nlc-poetry/wby.html
Give the beast a face the people like and they will bow down and kiss the feet of it.
Witness the morphing of Free Republic.
I don't believe this for a moment. Fingerprints are not generally "expert read" in this day and age - the comparison is done by software.
There's something else here than a mistaken fingerprint.
But still cleaner than the FBI.
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