Security review again delays Muslim chaplain's hearing

Posted on Wed, Feb. 18, 2004

GUANTANAMO BAY


Security review again delays Muslim chaplain's hearing

A Guantánamo chaplain's pretrial hearing over alleged mishandling of classified material is put off for a fifth time.

BY CAROL ROSENBERG

crosenberg@herald.com


For the fifth time, the Army on Tuesday delayed the pretrial hearing for a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified information at the U.S. terror prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The Southern Command in Miami said Capt. James ''Youseff'' Yee's hearing at Fort Benning, Ga., will resume March 10 -- not today, as previously announced. Prosecutors sought the delay because the military has not completed a security review of potentially classified documents in the case, Southcom said.

Yee's civilian attorney responded that the government should drop its case, which began with the West Point graduate's arrest Sept. 11 in Jacksonville.

'I don't know what takes so long about completing this classification review, but it certainly supports our position that there is no `there' there,'' said Yee's civilian defense attorney, Eugene Fidell.
(snip/...)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/7978485.htm

The Army apparently freaked because Yee is Muslim and was doing his duty as a chaplain. Now they are trying to cover it up.