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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (25643)	5/25/2004 10:45:42 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Spirit catching up on posts. That one said a lot. I will not, or feel like gloating at President Bush's absolute failure as our president. It is too serious to have such a fellow as my president. It is too serious we have Mr. Cheney puppeteering his president. When do you, my fellow posters, remember how early in a race that we have been in such of an atrocity of leadership that we have now? Political partisanship stops here. (in my heart). This, in my opinion will get much worse before it gets better. I try to not let too many things make me feel bad. There's plenty but I try. Does our situation make you sad sometimes? I'm happy to be here and get so much from you folks. Thanks. Sioux

To: American Spirit who wrote (25643)	5/26/2004 12:17:33 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 81568

MADRID TRAIN BLAST Lawyer freed after FBI admits fingerprint error straitstimes.asia1.com.sg SEATTLE - An Oregon lawyer arrested in connection with the Madrid train bombings has been cleared of all wrongdoing after the FBI determined it had misidentified a fingerprint on a bag of detonators. A federal judge on Monday threw out the case against Mr Brandon Mayfield, a Muslim convert, who was arrested on May 6 and held for two weeks as a material witness in the bombings that killed 197 people and injured 2,000 others. He was the first American to be linked to the attack. The Spanish authorities last week identified the print as belonging to an Algerian man. 'Due to the misidentification by the FBI of a fingerprint, the court orders the material witness proceeding dismissed,' read a statement posted by US District Judge Robert Jones on the federal court's website. The FBI issued an apology to Mr Mayfield on Monday. He was released from the Multnomah County Detention Centre last Thursday. Mr Mayfield, 37, at a news conference in Oregon where he was joined by family members and his lawyers, described his ordeal as 'harrowing', 'embarrassing' and 'humiliating'. He said: 'I'm now two or three days out of the detention centre, and I'm just now stopping to shake.' He added that what happened to him could - in today's 'climate of fear' - happen to anybody. He said he and his family had been traumatised, especially his two youngest children, aged 10 and 12. He hinted that he might sue the government, whose actions had 'blown my legal practice completely apart'. In a long and sometimes emotional statement, he compared the federal government to Nazi Germany in its treatment of him and other Muslims. 'I've been singled out and discriminated against because, I feel, I am a Muslim,' he said, adding that there are other 'material witnesses languishing away' in jails and detention centres across the country. But Ms Karin Immergut, the US attorney for the District of Oregon, defended her office's handling of the case. She noted on Monday that neither the computer database system nor the FBI knew at the time they identified the print as Mr Mayfield's that he was a Muslim. 'Although there has been some concern, expressed in the press and elsewhere, that Mr Mayfield was singled out because of his religious beliefs, I can assure you that that is not true,' she said. -- Los Angeles Times