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So I think this Mayfield situation is pretty interesting. The disturbing part to me is that the additional information that was used reminds me of the old idea of guilt by association, and I think that’s scary. Maybe the fingerprint was an honest mistake (I’m trying hard to buy that idea, not having much success), but part of the justification is basically that this guy has ties to his community. And that seems wrong…

Besides the fingerprint, Werder’s affidavit also cited as justification: Mayfield handled the child custody case involving one of the defendants in the Portland Seven federal jihad case. A phone call was made two years ago on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks between Mayfield’s residence and an Ashland man who runs an Islamic charity. That man, Pete Seda, now is on a federal terror watch list. Mayfield’s law firm was listed in a business directory run by a Portland man who was a business associate of Wadih El-Hage, Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary. El-Hage was convicted in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Mayfield was observed driving to the Bilal mosque in Beaverton “on several different occasions.”

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