FBI Notes Shed Light on Ore. Lawyer Arrest

[Eugene]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5139800,00.html

FBI Notes Shed Light on Ore. Lawyer Arrest

Thursday July 14, 2005 3:31 AM

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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

Associated Press Writer

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The day before a Portland attorney was wrongly
arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Madrid train bombings, an
FBI official stated in an e-mail that the agency did not have enough
evidence to arrest the man on criminal charges.

The recently declassified e-mail, written by Portland FBI spokeswoman
Beth Anne Steele in May 2004, also noted that the attorney, Brandon
Mayfield, was a Muslim convert. And it said the FBI had a plan to
arrest Mayfield "if and when" his supposed link to the March 2004
terrorist attack "gets outed by the media."

Mayfield was arrested a day later under the material witness law,
which allows the arrest and detention of witnesses who might flee
before testifying in criminal cases. The FBI said at the time that
fingerprints found on a bag of detonators near the bombings had been
matched to Mayfield.

Two weeks later, the FBI admitted the fingerprints belonged to
someone else, freed Mayfield and apologized to him.

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[FlemingsGhost]

1. One of the many reasons we told the Terror Task Force to fuck off

And stay out!

[KT2000]

2. Frightening

material witness law
disgraceful

[enough]

3. kick

[anotherdrew]

4. I don't believe they actually thought his fingerprints matched

He was targeted as a potential patsy due to his convert to islam status and they just waited for a chance to frame him on something. Then it blew up in their faces when Spain didn't play along as they were expected to. We need people in there we can trust, not bushbots. Add this to the Judi Berry situation, the fake crime lab, the can't be bothered to investigate suspicious flight school students, can't be bother to get a FISA warrant for a terrorist linked man, etc, etc, etc. and we have a FBI totally out of control and never help accountable for anything. Maybe quite a number of good agents, but just like everywhere else in this country the Management ruins any chance of them doing their jobs.