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To: crazyhorse691

I'm not even sure it's fair to "blame" the lab or anybody else on this one. Apparently the fingerprints were all extremely similar such that a few different sets of expert eyes all were fooled for a while.

In the end though, the fingerprint differences were discovered and this guy's prints were excluded. That's not a mistake, that's just how investigations sometimes work. Yes, one can say that they were mistakenly identified... but it wasn't a procedural or process error-- it was a re-analysis of prints that at first genuinely appeared to match.

To call any of this a "problem" at the FBI suggests that the FBI or anybody else in the investigation should have acted any differently given the information they had at the time. They should not have.


5 posted on 01/06/2006 5:56:38 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: Ramius
I'm not even sure it's fair to "blame" the lab or anybody else on this one

What bothers me the most about this is a US citizen was "secretly held as a material witness for two weeks". This stuff isn't supposed to happen in America.

15 posted on 01/06/2006 6:35:04 PM PST by Mulder (“The spirit of resistance is so valuable, that I wish it to be always kept alive" Thomas Jefferson)
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