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<p>FORT BENNING, Georgia (CNN) -- Attorneys for a Muslim Army chaplain alleged to have mishandled classified information at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused the lead investigator in the case of misconduct Tuesday.</p> <p>Eugene Fidel, lead attorney for Capt. James Yee, told reporters he questioned the conduct of Col. Dan Trimble, the chief investigating officer who is presiding over Yee's Article 32 hearing, now in its second day at Fort Benning.</p>

<p>FORT BENNING, Ga. — A customs agent testified yesterday that he found "suspicious" papers related to national security in the backpack of a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified documents from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p> <p>Special Agent Sean Rafferty, who works as a customs inspector in Jacksonville, Fla., said he was tipped off to watch for Army Capt. James Yee, 35, at the airport as Capt. Yee returned from the Cuba base. He said he searched the backpack that Capt. Yee carried off the plane.</p>

FORT BENNING, Ga. - A Customs agent testified Monday he found "suspicious" documents related to national security in the backpack of a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified documents from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Army Capt. James Yee, 35, is charged with disobeying an order by taking home classified material from the prison and improperly transporting it. He also faces charges of making a false statement, storing pornography on a government computer and adultery — a criminal offense under military law. Yee is one of four people at the military's high-security prison to be arrested since September....

<p>MILITARY PROSECUTORS are making the US Army look foolish and vindictive. By charging Captain James Yee with adultery and storing pornography on a government computer -- after imprisoning him in a navy brig under harsh conditions for 76 days -- Army prosecutors appear to be inverting a precious principle of American justice. Instead of starting with a crime and then looking for the perpetrator, they seem to have taken the man into custody and then begun looking for a crime.</p>

<p>Mishandling of classified information by the legal staff at America's prison for terrorism suspects undermines the military's case against a Muslim chaplain charged with security breaches, his attorney said yesterday.</p> <p>Army Capt. James Yee had been scheduled to face the military version of a preliminary hearing Tuesday at Fort Benning, Ga., on charges he mishandled secret information at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p>

What Happens to Cheating Soldiers? Capt. James Yee, the Army chaplain accused of sneaking classified materials out of Guantanamo Bay, has been charged with adultery as well. What sort of punishment do soldiers face for cheating on their spouses? The military penalty remains pretty harsh: up to a year in confinement plus a dishonorable discharge, which entails the forfeiture of all retirement pay. But a soldier's odds of facing such punishment are slim, at least if adultery is all they're charged with. In fact, courts martial on adultery charges alone are almost unheard of; the charge is usually added atop...

Chaplain Held in Espionage Case Is Freed By NEIL A. LEWIS Published: November 26, 2003 ASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — The military said on Tuesday that it was releasing Capt. James J. Yee, the former Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, after confining him for nearly three months on suspicion of espionage activities. Captain Yee will be allowed to resume his chaplain duties at Fort Benning, Ga. At the same time, though, the United States Southern Command, based in Miami, which administers the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, said it was investigating other possible violations of military code by Captain Yee,...

<p>The military yesterday filed charges of adultery and pornography against Army Capt. James Yee, a Muslim chaplain, and released him after 77 days in a Navy brig.</p> <p>Capt. Yee was charged last month with two counts of unlawful transportation of classified information while a chaplain at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, where about 660 al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are being held, and has been reassigned to the chaplain's office at Fort Benning, Ga.</p>

<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. military on Tuesday charged a former Muslim chaplain accused of taking classified material from the U.S. prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay (search), Cuba, with adultery and storing pornography on a government computer.</p>

The Navy's secret brig Prison's mission evolves as terror suspects arrive BY TONY BARTELME Of The Post and Courier Staff It's 4:30 p.m., quitting time at the Naval Weapons Station, and hundreds of cars and trucks roll single-file past the gate onto Remount Road. Across the street, a photographer aims his camera toward a distant building on the base. BRAD NETTLES/STAFF The brig in Hanahan is one of the military's main medium-security prisons in the United States. The building is mostly blocked by live oaks and pines, but between the trees, you can make out an orange barricade, a fence...

Guantanamo chaplain charged with porn offences A Muslim chaplain who served at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has been charged with adultery and storing pornography on a government computer. Army Captain Yousef Yee, who served at the prison camp for terror suspects, was released from pre-trial confinement after being served with the additional charges, said Raul Duany, a spokesman for US Southern Command in Miami. Adultery is a crime under the uniform code of military justice. He was arrested earlier this year in Florida and confined to the military brig in Charleston, South Carolina. Military officials brought the...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Muslim chaplain who served at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was charged Tuesday with adultery and storing pornography on a government computer, a U.S. Southern Command spokesman said. Army Capt. James Yee, who worked at the prison camp for terror suspects in eastern Cuba, was released from custody Tuesday after being served with the additional charges, Raul Duany, a spokesman for U.S. Southern Command in Miami, told The Associated Press. He was arrested earlier this year in Florida and confined to the military brig in Charleston, S.C. Military officials brought...

<p>Military officials responding to the espionage probe at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Navy prison camp in Cuba have ramped up security checks of materials carried off the camp's grounds by prison guards and civilians.</p> <p>Days after the Sept. 29 arrest of a Guantanamo interpreter charged with lying about classified materials in his possession, senior Pentagon officials said counterintelligence measures had been in place at the prison camp to prevent such a case.</p>

<p>WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) &#8212; An interpreter at the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, who was arrested last month carrying classified documents, had government clearance to access the information, his attorney said in court yesterday.</p> <p>But federal prosecutors, while acknowledging Ahmed Fathy Mehalba was cleared to see classified documents, said he was forbidden to transport any information.</p>

Alamoudi and Those Bags of Libyan Cash Posted Oct. 13, 2003 By J. Michael Waller Alamoudi faces a laundry list of terrorism-related charges. Federal agents may have ripped the lid off an international terrorist-support network in Washington that operated to finance terrorists inside the United States and abroad, while penetrating the U.S. political system to weaken federal antiterrorism laws. The Sept. 29 arrest of an alleged senior terrorist operative living in Falls Church, Va., has burst open a case that Insight has been following since 2001: an alleged international ring of terrorists, their financiers, propaganda networks and support structures that...

SPY GAMES Mark Steyn has the best, clearest, and of course funniest summation I’ve yet read of the Wilson/Plame affair in the current Spectator: Some choice quotes: “[A]n agency known to be opposed to war in Iraq sent an employee’s spouse also known to be opposed to war in Iraq on a perfunctory joke mission. And, after eight days sipping tea and meeting government officials in one city of one country, Ambassador Wilson gave a verbal report to the CIA and was horrified to switch on his TV and see Bush going on about what British Intelligence had learned about...

<p>A Muslim chaplain in the U.S. Army being held in the investigation of possible espionage at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp was charged yesterday with disobeying a general order for improperly handling classified information.</p> <p>Capt. James J. Yee was charged with "taking classified material to his home and wrongfully transporting classified material without the proper security containers or covers," said the Defense Department's U.S. Southern Command, which oversees activities at Guantanamo.</p>

Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay prison camp charged with disobeying orders.

[Pg. 3]... Capt. James Yee, the Muslim chaplain caught with documents from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, will be charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and violating general orders. So far, Yee has not been implicated in espionage, although investigators are still trying to determine how he got maps and diagrams of Camp Delta, which holds about 660 detainees...

WASHINGTON - Army investigators are leaning toward filing slap-on-the-wrist charges versus a Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay who was investigated for espionage, a military source told the Daily News yesterday. The "handful" of minor charges against Capt. Yousef Yee could be leveled by next week and are not expected to include the more serious allegations of spying, sedition or aiding the enemy, according to the source familiar with the probe. "It's very weak," the military source said, saying the charges are likely to be related to dereliction of duty and disobeying a general order. "It's nothing compared to espionage or...