{"id":883,"date":"2003-11-26T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/883.html"},"modified":"2003-11-26T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T15:09:44","slug":"when-the-military-said-espionage-they-apparently-meant-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/when-the-military-said-espionage-they-apparently-meant-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"When the military said ‘espionage,’ they apparently meant ‘porn’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I mentioned in September the arrest of Capt. James Yee, a former military chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, I feel it’s only fair that I also mention that Yee has been released<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you may recall, in September, Yee was arrested and, according to a Washington Post report<\/a>, charged with a number of crimes under the military’s criminal code relating to espionage. In particular, there were multiple reports about a military investigation into why Yee, a Muslim chaplain, “possessed classified documents” about suspected terrorists held at the base and their interrogators.<\/p>\n

That was nearly three months ago. Since then, according to an LA Times report<\/a>, Yee has been in a naval brig, “held in harsh conditions, barred from practicing his Islamic faith and deprived of his legal right to a speedy trial.”<\/p>\n

Tuesday, the military announced that it was releasing Yee from custody and will be allowed to resume his duties at Fort Benning, Ga.<\/p>\n

So the worst for Yee is behind him, right? Afraid not.<\/p>\n

Yee may not be guilty of terrorist-sympathizing espionage, but he may have been doing other “inappropriate” things<\/a>. During its investigation, the military apparently uncovered evidence that Yee violated his code of conduct by having an affair and storing pornography on his government-issued computer.<\/p>\n

I’ve said it before<\/a> and I’ll say it again: the government needs to do a thorough review of the entire military chaplaincy program. If we’re lucky, it will take James Madison’s advice<\/a> and end the program all together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I mentioned in September the arrest of Capt. James Yee, a former military chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, I feel it’s only fair that I also mention that Yee has been released. As you may recall, in September, Yee was arrested and, according to a Washington Post report, charged with a number of crimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}