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...military uses to house suspected terrorists? It seemed to be a possibility when U.S. officials leveled charges this fall against a Muslim Army chaplain and two base interpreters. But the notion that U.S. personnel were working for the enemy took a knock last week when the cleric, Captain James Yee, was freed from pretrial detention in a naval brig to work in the chaplain's office at Fort Benning, Ga. Yee still faces charges that he improperly took classified material from the prison, but suspicions that he might be a spy seem to have evaporated. If the Pentagon had real...
Meanwhile, the Army has slapped Yee with additional charges, including adultery--a crime in the military--and keeping pornography on a government computer. Eugene Fidell, Yee's lawyer, called the new charges "vindictive" and said, "We intend to fully litigate the matter." A military official denied that the supplementary charges were spiteful but conceded that "adultery is not normally investigated in the military. Even if it's common knowledge, nobody goes after...
...politically active campus liberal, followed suit with a glowing endorsement of “the second amendment. Oh wait, free speech. The first amendment.” Wootten perked up at the mention of the second amendment, the right to bear arms, while Moon yelled, “Yee-hah!” and reached over to clink glasses with him in approval. “Ooh, can we talk about guns?” asked House. “I don’t like guns, but I shot one once and it was fun. I shot skeet...
...less sinister explanation for the alleged behavior of Yee and al-Halabi is that they became sympathetic to the prisoners' plight and wanted to pass news about them to their families. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon for guards to develop sympathies for their captives. Indeed, many of the prisoners are considered of marginal danger. According to a military source, only a handful at the camp are deemed to be hard-core al-Qaeda operatives, and they are segregated from the rest...
...Pentagon is currently reviewing both security at Gitmo and the method it uses to choose and vet the chaplains that minister to the military's estimated 4,000 Muslims. In the meantime, Yee must be charged under the military code within 120 days of his arrest or be released. Whether Yee and al-Halabi knew each other and collaborated in a spy ring or are simply fellow Muslims whose devoutness was mistaken for betrayal is the next chapter in a spy story that is still being written. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York, Eli Sanders/Olympia, Maggie Sieger/Chicago and Mark Thompson/Washington