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Yee
So the charges have been dropped against Captain Yee, after a prosecution that to all outward appearances was astoundingly witless.
But there is an extraordinarily strange statement from the prosecution:
In dismissing the charges, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which operates the detention center, cited "national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence" if the case proceeded.
What on earth does that mean? That the classified documents Yee was carrying are so sensitive that a trial would bring to light information that must not be brought to light? If that's the case, then why is he going back to work? The AP article that contains the quote from Miller says that "Yee now faces only minor punishment and should be back at work soon."
Also, it ought to be possible to try someone for mishandling classified documents without releasing classified information. Something very strange is going on in this case.
Posted by Robert at March 20, 2004 12:58 PM
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It probably means that Yee has agreed to cooperate in exchange of not being prosecuted.
I think that you are right adela. Yee might have made a bargain to save his skin. Or perhaps he was a plant to begin with, passing fake information to Syria as part of a CIA or DIA operation. The former is more likely though.
Posted by: FH at March 20, 2004 3:26 PMMost certainly, Captain James Yee opened himself up to scrutiny by sending out signals that America`s security apparatus would have been remiss to ignore. The former West point graduate who took up Islamic studies while at one of America`s great traditional academies and after teaching Islamic studies resigned from the army and then traveled to lebanon, and Syria for more studies only to return and re-inlist into the army as a captain and minister to Muslim detainees at Guantanomo. Given the environment that we are living in today, he should have been more security minded in the handling of information that may or may have not been mishandled.
Posted by: Mackie at March 20, 2004 8:22 PMIt seems most likely that the military has botched the prosectution. He is not the only case from GITMO which has floundered.
Big R
Posted by: Big R at March 22, 2004 12:34 PM
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