[george wythe]

Ricciuti submitted into evidence several security clearance forms indicating Mehalba was authorized to access classified information as part of his job at Guantanamo Bay, but was not authorized to travel with it.

Mehalba's attorney, Michael Andrews, said the translator has no idea how the information came to be stored on the disc.

The fact that his guy's stash was discovered by a random customs check, not the FBI, makes the "setup" argument more difficult to sell.

I'm still waiting for other shoes to drop. This conspiracy seems to be larger than anticipated

[Sacajaweau]

The guy has to have a trail...hoping we have it, too. Think we've been tailing these three dudes for a while. They're all inter-connected. Sounds like al queda. We're too damn trusting aren't we.

[Montfort]

"Prosecutors accused Ahmed Fathy Mehalba last month of lying to federal officials about classified information he was carrying when he arrived in the United States from Egypt, where he had been visiting relatives."

This is so outrageous it would be funny if lives were not at stake.

They hire people like this as translators for an important interrogation/detention operation? Are there so few non-Muslims who have studied Arabic and related langauges to a high level?