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Another Jihadist in the Army? At least this one wasn't in the field where he could be rolling grenades into occupied tents.

This is far worse...

Capt. Yee, of Chinese-American descent, was raised in New Jersey as a Christian. He studied Islam at West Point and converted to Islam and left the Army in the mid-1990s. He moved to Syria, where he underwent further religious training in traditional Islamic beliefs. He returned to the United States and re-entered the Army as an Islamic chaplain. He is said to be married to a Syrian woman.

First of all, anyone married to a foreign national of a terrorist-supporting nation should be excluded from any position in the Armed forces, much less any position involving intel, which someone working with detainees is certainly exposed to. Someone involved with one-on-one sesssions as a counselor/religious mentor is in a position to hear things that shouldn't be widely known as well. They can act as a facilitator of communication between individual prisoners, as well as between prisoners and outside world, including other nation's intelligence services or terror groups. Such information can get our people killed. A chaplain is also in a position to blackmail military personnel- he would be hearing confessions. Soldiers, assuming he's vetted and safe to talk with, could reveal in their confessions things which he or others could use to coerce them into acting on behalf or terror groups or other nations.

Someone who had moved to Syria should have been flagged from the get go.

Capt. Yee had almost unlimited private access to detainees as part of the Defense Department's program to provide the prisoners with religious counseling, as well as clothing and Islamic-approved meals.

#$%&@*!!!!!! Just like that @#*(%^$@ leftist terror-lawyer Lynne Stewart who acted as a conduit for the WTC bombers...

The law-enforcement source declined to say how much damage Capt. Yee may have inflicted on the U.S. war against Osama bin Laden's global terror network.

*sigh* I hope they had him under surveillance for a long, long time so that he's done more damage to his own cause than ours, but that mightbe way too optomistic in today's PC world...