March 19, 2004

Charges Dropped Against Yousef Yee

Citing national security concerns, the Army on Friday dropped all charges against a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified documents at Guantanamo Bay, which houses suspected terrorists.

Capt. James Yee will be allowed to return to his previous duty station at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, Wash., said the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the detention center in Cuba.

"Chaplain Yee has won," his attorney, Eugene R. Fidell of Washington, said in a statement late Friday. "The Army's dismissal of the classified information charges against him represents a long overdue vindication."

In dismissing the charges, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which operates the detention center, cited "national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence" if the case proceeded.

This indicates that the Government has bigger fish to fry than Yee and that revealing whatever evidence they've gathered (on the Saudi-funded and implemented infilitration of our military's chaplain program with radical Islamists) to convict Yee wouldn't be worth it.
Notice that Yee is NOT being sent back to Gitmo.