"We are in the process of asking the Americans," to highlight the mistake, "and we hope they will do just that," Miguel Angel Moratinos told the Cuatro news station. He said Madrid had expressed its "perplexity" and "great surprise" to the new US ambassador to Madrid Alan B. Solomont.
FBI spokesman Ken Hoffman said Saturday that an FBI technician, acting on his own initiative, had taken the image of Llamazares from the Internet. But the politician charged the agency took the photo from its own files. "If leftists are part of the FBI files - North Americans, Europeans or from elsewhere - it's not by chance or a laughing matter," he told a news conference in parliament. Llamazares has said he had sent several letters to the ambassador, the FBI and the US Congress requesting an explanation.