Questionable.

Among the key links are seven fingerprints that the authorities lifted from the application form.

A U.S. fingerprint expert testified that a 2006 analysis identified Padilla's fingerprints on the front of the first page of the form and on the back of the last page.

Defense attorneys have questioned why Padilla's prints do not appear on the middle pages of the application form. They have suggested that the prints' locations are consistent with Padilla being handed the form during his detention, and not opening it.

But there is no way of knowing when those prints were made, the fingerprint expert said.

The form, defense attorney Anthony Natale told jurors this week, is a "questionable document."

He warned them against believing the prosecutors who, he alleged, had allowed the atmospherics of the case -- the associations with al-Qaeda and bin Laden -- to make a weak set of facts look stronger than it is.

"In the absence of hard evidence, a suspicion can be fueled by fear, nourished by prejudice and directed by politics into a criminal prosecution," he said.

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Trivia:
I think Peter Whoriskey used to report for The Palm Beach Post, no?