Lt. Yee: Spy or Sex Fiend?

First US accused him of spying, the most serious charge in the book. Now they're just wrecking his family.


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/09/national/09YEE.html


December 9, 2003
Case Against Ex-Chaplain Opens Focusing on Affair
By NEIL A. LEWIS

FORT BENNING, Ga., Dec. 8 — The military opened its case on Monday against Capt. James J. Yee, who was once billed by Pentagon officials as part of a major espionage plot, not with evidence of any significant security breaches but with detailed testimony about a two-month extramarital affair he had with a female officer this year.

In a spare and harshly lighted military courtroom at the base here, prosecutors led off their case against Captain Yee, the former Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by calling Karyn Wallace, a Navy lieutenant who said she had met him at Guantánamo's bachelor quarters. Under precise questioning from a prosecutor and the military judge, Lieutenant Wallace recounted how she and Captain Yee had gone from being close friends to having an intimate relationship in the summer, both at Guantánamo and in Orlando, Fla., where they took leave together.

Captain Yee's wife, Huda, their 4-year-old daughter in her arms, loudly and emotionally confronted Lieutenant Wallace outside the courtroom after the testimony. Captain Yee, along with his elderly parents, who were in the courtroom, seemed stunned and drained by the testimony.

Captain Yee was arrested on Sept. 10 at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla., on suspicion of espionage after customs inspectors found papers in his luggage that they said were suspicious and might have contained classified information. He was charged with an offense far less serious than espionage, transporting classified information without a required secure container, at the time and confined in solitary in a naval brig for nearly three months while the military completed its investigation.

When the investigation was finished last month and he was released, the military's new charges involved keeping pornography on his government computer and having an extramarital affair, both violations of the Military Code of Justice.

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;) j/k

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No wonder this thread has sunk like a lead balloon. Maybe I should change the title to "GORE: Spy or Sex Fiend"?

Exactly!

and porno on gov't computer.....i hate bushco

affair, but about how he became a suspect in a crime he's no longer a suspect in, and how and when they changed the charges on him. Was he really suspected of espionage, or were they irresponsibly trumping it up, ruining him for good, for some other reason? Or is this new charge a cover for the grave error they made when first arresting him?

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him?

Did he bring up conditions at the Concentration Camp? Speak out in some way?

With all the bed-hopping that goes on in the military (I was in it) and cheatin' wives and husbands, of course they only prosecute it when they are harassing someone.

I Googled but couldn't find anything that would cause the Busheviks to "vendetta" him to sart with?

Anyone?

I want to know what it is myself.

Besides, Yee knew that the absolutely none of the Gitmo detainees had any involvement in the 9-11 terror attacks. They were just unlucky enough to get swept up by the American mop up effort after the Army made sure that the REAL Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders escaped to Pakistan by ceasing fire on the Kabul Airport for three critical hours.

As a matter of fact, if the US wanted the true planners of 9-11 interred at Gitmo, they'd just move the board of the American Enterprise Institute down there.