Posted on 05/20/2008 9:54:54 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
A former Army Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was cleared of spy accusations is now a Democratic National Convention delegate pledged to Sen. Barack Obama.
Former Capt. James J. Yee was among the delegates who were elected by precinct representatives Saturday at the party's 9th Congressional District convention at North Thurston High School.
Others chosen at the gathering were Zach Smith, a former supporter of ex-Sen. John Edwards who is now pledged to Clinton, and Natalie Stevens, an alternate pledged to Obama.
Yee, a West Point graduate, was accused in 2003 of being part of a spy ring at the U.S. prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. He spent 76 days in solitary confinement before being exonerated and later resigned from the Army, receiving an honorable discharge.
Yee now lives with his wife and daughter in Olympia, south of Fort Lewis, where he was assigned before and after his ordeal.
The experience left him as "living proof that civil liberties have been eroded since 9/11," Yee told The Olympian newspaper on Monday.
He said that during the gathering Saturday, "I came out and basically reiterated that Sen. Obama is really the only candidate that consistently campaigns on rejecting torture without exception, on closing Guantanamo Bay, restoring habeas (corpus) and adhering to the Geneva Conventions."
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And worth repeating another time also.
My sentiments exactly.
Notice the Muslim scull cap, beard and phony, hypocritical American flag pin. Outrageous.
If you can't be tried for treason and sedition in this country we are doomed.
When will we start to fight back and stop these traitors?
The charges were reduced, that is far from being exonerated. Nice try at rewriting history though.
Can anybody tell me if an Honorable Discharge is normal or warranted even with the reduced charge (mishandling classified information)? Seems to me that a General or Dishonorable would be in order.
Ping.
Recall that Yee was appaently chosen to be a chaplain [probably through Clinton’s AMFVAC group ] and he went to get his religious cred from the central mosque in Damascus, Syria
not only did he have a list of detainees, he had a diagram of the facility
Posted on 9/24/2003 3:41:19 AM by kattracks
The group that vetted accused terrorist spy James "Yousef" Yee to serve as a US military chaplain isn't talking to reporters. Meanwhile, news of the arrest of a second US serviceman who dealt with al Qaeda detainees at the US naval base in Guantanamo has people asking just how deeply the terrorist enemy has penetrated the United States armed forces.
Response from the Wahhabi Lobby so far is typical: a combination of (1) hiding from reporters, (2) complaining that the alleged spies were being picked on because they are Muslim, and (3) changing the subject.
The American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council, which reportedly recommended Capt. Yee, won't comment to journalists, referring callers to its Website, which states simply that reporters should not bother Yee's ailing parents.
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad implies in an initial statement that the government is making an issue of the alleged spies' religion. (Awad is an avowed supporter of the Hamas suicide bombing group. He declined an opportunity to testify recently before a Senate panel, avoiding any cross-examination.) As of this writing, CAIR's headline-packed Website is silent about the arrests.
The other arrested serviceman, US Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad I. al Halabi, served as an Arabic interpreter at Guantanamo and was secretly apprehended in July on eight counts of espionage and three counts of aiding the enemy.
The Yee arrest validates the Center for Security Policy's long-held concerns that the Clinton-era Pentagon program to hire and vet Muslim chaplains is dangerously flawed and harmful to national security.
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