Muslim chaplain in hearing at Fort Benning

[Judi Lynn]

< The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 12/8/03 >

Muslim chaplain in hearing at Fort Benning

The Associated Press


FORT BENNING -- A Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified information from the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo, Cuba, was detained after he was found with a paper about Syria and two pocket-sized notebooks in his backpack, a U.S. Customs agent testified Monday.

Army Capt. James Yee, 35, is charged with taking classified documents home with him on a flight to Jacksonville, Fla., where he was detained Sept. 10. He was charged with disobeying an order by taking the material and with transporting classified documents improperly. (snip)

(snip) The first witness to testify Monday was Navy reserve officer Lt. Caren Wallace, who said she had sex with Yee at his quarters in Guantanamo, Cuba, and at a motel in Orlando, Fla., where he was attending a conference.

Wallace, now assigned to San Diego, is being given immunity from prosecution for her testimony. Photographs of the two were entered into evidence, including one showing Yee and Wallace hugging.(snip/...)


http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1203/08chaplain.html

UNBELIEVABLE.

[candy331]

1. Why are these people

so hung up on anything that has to do with sex? I guess national security warrants it. right?

[plcdude]

3. they have not

a substantial case so they fling the mud and let it go at that. We seem to spending more time on sexuality rather than justice and freedom. It looks as though he made some major personal mistakes but hardly worth legal actions. Adultery in the armed services is a criminal offense but a sham unless that is all you have to get someone. A significant number of officers would be in jail if their personal lives were investigated.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Another article on Chaplain Yee's trial

Woman testifies of affair with military chaplain who worked with detainees in Cuba
(Fort Benning-AP) Dec. 8, 2003 - A Navy lieutenant testified at a hearing Monday she had an affair with a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified documents from the US prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo, Cuba.

Army Captain James Yee, 35, is charged with taking classified documents home with him on a flight to Jacksonville, Florida, where he was detained on September 10th. He's charged with disobeying an order by taking the material, transporting classified documents improperly, making a false statement, storing pornography on a government computer and adultery, a criminal offense under military law.

The preliminary hearing will determine whether there's enough evidence against Yee to warrant a court-martial.

A Navy reserve officer, Lieutenant Caren Wallace, said she had sex with Army Captain James Yee at his quarters in Guantanamo and at a motel in Orlando, Florida, where he was attending a conference. Wallace is being given immunity from prosecution for her testimony.
(snip/...)

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1555204

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If this is the BIG STUFF they have against him, how is his case any different from so many OTHER U.S. men in service? Why not put THEM all on trial, as well?

Doesn't it point out that the rest of the charges are laughable?

The first article I posted above relates a scene in which the man's wife was driven to confront the other involved in the affair, and cry out, "You've destroyed a marriage."

This is so sad. Who's in charge here, John Ashcroft?

[underpants]

4. Yee got f**ked for being a whistleblower

No I don't know what really went on there but from the initial reports (he never was charged for espionage or treason) and now this? Adultery is punishable under UCMJ but to end up with that charge from what they started leaking (oops more leaks) raises the BS flag.

Either way he can't stay in the Army and now he probably won't be able to me a Islamic clergyman. I don't know if they have a means to "reinstate" him or if "clergyman" is the right word to use there.

Yee got screwed. IMHO

[Hobarticus]

5. How about the Air Force cadet rapes?

Doesn't that warrant as much a full investigation? Is that not improper sexual conduct in the military, even more so because it was forced?

(crickets)

My faith in the justice system knows no bounds.

[PsychoDad]

6. In Sharia Law...

It requires 4 eyewitnesses to the actual act of adultry, In the more "liberal" and civilized US, it only takes a photo of 2 people hugging.

"including one showing Yee and Wallace hugging" sounds like this was the most "lncriminating" evidence they could produce. Guess they droped the spy charges, and are persuing the adultry charges because the adultress has come forward with her confesion. And a couple of photos.

Good thing Hester Prynne only had to deal with the laws of the puritans. The Military woulda really nailed her!

[MasonJar]

7. No. One

It is outrageous that there is a law against adultery in the military. Who's business is it. However, if we could get Neil Bush signed up we could nail the bastard. I love that the girl gets off scot free; Yee gets the book because he knows how the prisoners are being treated. What he did is not a crime unless Neil goes down too.

[Judi Lynn]

8. New info. on Chaplain Yee

Dec 9, 6:13 AM EST

Accused Muslim Chaplain Faces Hearing

By ELLIOTT MINOR
Associated Press Writer





FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) -- The lawyer for a Muslim chaplain accused of security breaches at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, contends he cannot properly defend his client without seeing documents confiscated by the Army.

Eugene Fidell made his argument Monday to the military judge, Col. Dan Trimble, who is presiding over the preliminary hearing of Capt. James Yee. The proceeding continues Tuesday.

"I have a lot of frustration," Fidell said. "The government's cart is before the horse. It's crazy."

Fidell told Trimble the documents he needs to see include two small notebooks, a typewritten page and a term paper on Syria that Yee had written for a college course on international affairs. (snip/...)

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GUANTANAMO_HEARING?SITE=FLPAP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT