FBI sense of superiority over Spanish led to arrest error

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Full article: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-01-06T172511Z_01_WRI662684_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-FBI.xml

Mayfield was arrested and held for weeks on the FBI's mistaken allegation. His picture and his story were splashed all over the local media during that time. Where does this attorney go to retrieve his reputation and the trust he needs from the community to make a living?

The FBI shrugs and parroting Stupidhead says, "We're just trying to protect you from terrorists."

For some people, that's the sine qua non argument.

proving terroristic ties to someone in the US would help the administration's case for eavesdropping on US citizens.

Steven P.

--torture memo writer and toady Bush Cartel lawyer, Alberto Gonzales, the man who tipped off the White House about the Plame investigation, giving them a whole night to shred documents and prepare cover stories.

So, believe this report if you want to. It's certainly plausible that Bush's FBI is now filled with arrogant, incompetent assholes, but I would urge caution about believing a single word that comes out of Gonzales' DoJ. Could they be targeting someone? The FBI's last honest agents? Could there have been a fingerprint switch? What was really going on there, and to what end? Beware, is all I'm saying.

(Note: That's how they got rid of FBI agent John O'Neal, just before 9/11. He was following Saudi/OBL money connections in Yemen. Somebody stole his FBI briefcase at an FBI meeting, and he was accused of negligence--re: security--and they forced him out. He then went to work as head of security at the WTC, a week before 9/11. That's where he died.)