The media told us this was coming. Brandon Mayfield, the local attorney who was arrested and held by federal authorities in connection with the Madrid subway bombing, but was exonerated when the FBI's apparently hamfisted misidentification of fingerprints came to light, has initiated a civil rights complaint in U.S. District Court in Portland. The basis of the claim is religious discrimination (Mr. Mayfield is a Muslim). The complaint was filed Tuesday March 7 (Civil No. 06-0305), and Judge Michael Mosman has drawn this one too.
Judge Mosman already is assigned the recently-filed challenge to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretaps of communications involving suspected terrorists. It's an uncomfortable juxtaposition for the government in front of one judge - defending its right to listen in on international conversations of persons it identifies (with unfettered discretion) as linked to terrorism, while it faces a plaintiff who was mistakenly identified (and held for some long time) as terrorist-linked.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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