The "100% fingerprint match" weren't lawyer's after all

The FBI is having a tough couple of weeks. The NYT reports:

Court records unsealed Tuesday showed that the Spanish authorities had raised questions about the F.B.I.'s fingerprint match to the lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, 37, weeks before his May 6 arrest. Yet F.B.I. officials were so confident of a match they described as "100 percent," the court papers show, that they never bothered to look at the original print while they were in Madrid on April 21, meeting with Spanish investigators.

Mayfield, you remember, is the Portland area immigration lawyer/Muslim convert, who was arrested on a material-witness warrant for his possible ties to the Islamic terrorists responsible for the horrific Madrid bombing. He was jailed for 14 days and released when the govt. dropped the entire case against him on Monday.

I guess, for Mr. Mayfield, it could've been worse.