{"id":940,"date":"2003-12-05T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/everyone-is-guilty-of-something\/"},"modified":"2003-12-05T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T18:02:29","slug":"everyone-is-guilty-of-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/everyone-is-guilty-of-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is guilty of something"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guant\u00e1namo Chaplain and His Wife Speak Out<\/a> By SARAH KERSHAW, NYTimes<\/p>\n

Captain Yee was held in solitary confinement<\/b> in a South Carolina Navy brig for nearly three months<\/b> while he was under investigation, permitted only two 15-minute telephone calls a day after a month and, his lawyers said, barred from speaking Arabic to his wife, whom he met while studying Islam in Syria in 1997.<\/p>\n

He was released last week without any espionage charges brought against him.<\/b> But in a twist that Mrs. Yee said was more devastating than the espionage investigation, the military has charged him with adultery — a violation of military code — and possession of pornography, in addition to charges that he had disobeyed orders by taking classified information home. …<\/p>\n

Captain Yee’s supporters say the government has charged him with adultery and keeping pornography \u2014 a fairly unusual move by the military justice system \u2014 to save face and trump up what has always been a weak case.<\/p>\n

“He was defamed and smeared and accused of being a spy,”<\/b> said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington advocacy group whose Seattle chapter was in close contact with Captain Yee’s relatives during his detainment. “Then all of sudden, they’re not even sorry. They’re saying, `You can go now, and for good measure we’ll throw in a few charges to further damage your reputation.’ It’s a very suspicious scenario that developed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guant\u00e1namo Chaplain and His Wife Speak Out By SARAH KERSHAW, NYTimes Captain Yee was held in solitary confinement in a South Carolina Navy brig for nearly three months while he was under investigation, permitted only two 15-minute telephone calls a day after a month and, his lawyers said, barred from speaking Arabic to his wife, … Continue reading Everyone is guilty of something<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}