US settles suit by Oregon lawyer wrongly accused in Madrid bombings
The US government agreed to pay $2 million Wednesday in a settlement agreement with Brandon Mayfield, the attorney arrested and detained for two weeks in May 2004 after the FBI mistakenly established that his fingerprints...
A Review of the FBI's Handling of the Brandon Mayfield Case, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, January 6, 2006 [concluding that the FBI did not misuse the Patriot Act but instead did "sloppy work" when it...
DOJ faults FBI for Mayfield Madrid bombings misidentification
The Inspector General , the internal watchdog of the US Department of Justice , concluded on Friday that the FBI did not misuse the Patriot Act but instead blamed the FBI...
US lawyer wrongly accused in Madrid bombings alleges privacy violations
Gerry Spence , the lawyer for Brandon Mayfield, the Muslim-convert Portland attorney arrested and accused of involvement in Madrid's 2004 terrorist bombings, said in court Friday that FBI agents intentionally withheld information from a judge...
Mistaken Madrid bombings arrest of Portland lawyer goes to trial
Brandon Mayfield , a Portland lawyer and Muslim convert, returns to a federal courthouse in Portland Friday for a pretrial hearing in his civil lawsuit against the US government. A little over a year ago...
UPDATE ~ Patriot Act used against attorney in Madrid bombing case
Following up on a JURIST report from earlier today, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has acknowledged for the first time that provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act were used in the investigation against Brandon Mayfield,...
In an annual report to Congress Friday, the US Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs revealed that the government applied for and was granted a record number of special warrants in 2004. The report submitted...
DOJ report flags mistreatment of Muslim inmates in federal prison
A US Department of Justice report released Friday described allegations of mistreatment of Muslim prisoners at several US federal prisons and documented one instance where a warden and guards discriminated and retaliated against Muslim inmates who had complained. The...
FBI wrongly linked Oregon lawyer to Madrid bombings, forensics experts conclude
A panel of forensics experts have concluded that institutional intimidation at the FBI prevented agents from correcting an obvious mistake that led to the arrest of an innocent Oregon lawyer in connection with the Madrid train bombings last spring....
