muslim chaplain spy cleared

[giuliano]

remember the hysteria over this? they were wrong...AGAIN

Cleared Muslim chaplain wants out
By Thomas Ricks Washington
August 4, 2004

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US Army chaplain Captain James Yee.
Picture:AP

The Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay who was falsely accused of spying, only to have the case against him fall apart, is resigning from the army.

Captain James Yee, who was arrested while posted to the military prison to minister to suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, said the army's handling of its case against him had destroyed his career. Captain Yee, a 1990 graduate of the West Point military academy, said he had asked to be discharged next January, saying the case had "irreparably injured my personal and professional reputation and destroyed my prospects for a career".

Arrested last year, Captain Yee was charged with mishandling classified information after authorities found maps of Guantanamo and information about detainees in his possession. He was held in solitary confinement for more than two months.

But the case against Captain Yee soon began to fall apart. Eventually the military dropped all criminal charges against him, but pursued accusations growing out of the investigation that he had committed adultery and stored pornographic images on a Government computer. He was reprimanded for those lesser offences, but that ruling was thrown out on appeal.
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"I have waited for months for an apology for the treatment to which I have been subjected, but none has been forthcoming," Captain Yee said in the statement released by his lawyer, Eugene Fidell. The army has given no indication it will apologise, Mr Fidell said.

The army had no comment on the case.

"I think his case is going to resonate with people for a long time, because the basis for his 76 days of solitary confinement remains unexplained," Mr Fidell said. "How could an officer be put in solitary confinement for 76 days, and then the case crumbles?"

Captain Yee grew up a Lutheran and after graduating from West Point commanded a Patriot missile battery. He converted to Islam after serving in Saudi Arabia after the 1991 Gulf War. In the late 1990s, he rejoined the army as a Muslim cleric. He intends to finish a master's degree in international relations.Washington Post

[Young]

I hope He sues.

[giuliano]

i especially like how after failing to pin him for international espionage and aiding terrorists, they got all spiteful and went for the consolation prize of having porn on his computer.

losers.

[Young]

You can get porn on your computer?

[giuliano]

see you in a month

[Comrade]

I hope he sues too, this is the sort of crap we don't need.

[Zeebadee]

76 days? That's nothing. Jose Padilla has been held under similar conditions for more than 2 years now, and he's an American civilian. What's the problem with charging Padilla, convicting him, and formally sentencing him? Why is this administration being allowed to simply lock people up without ever presenting a case against them?

[bishop]

deplorable but not surprising... this is the way america conducts its business under the bush administration.

if this officer was just another nobody like the people locked up in gitmo and elsewhere, do you think they would've dropped the charges against him? i seriously doubt it. this case speaks a lot about the basis the administration uses for detaining people, and their respect for due process and human rights.

heil hitler.. i mean bush.

[Nono]

giuliano: "... they got all spiteful ..."

Oh they're spiteful alright. Stay tuned to Boy George's election campaign.