Defamed to Famed and Cant Say a Word.

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Defamed to Famed and Cant Say a Word.

• A young soldiers order after months of ordeal.
  Based on ABC news article entitled Gag Order?
• http//abcnews.go.com/sections/US/WorldNewsTonight
  /james_yee_040421-1.html

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4 men detained

• September
• 4 military men in Guatanamo Bay arrested
• Detained under investigation into security
  breaches at prison

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Airman Ahmad Al Halabi

• Failed to report contacts with Syrian Embassy
• Attempted to deliver 180 e-mails from detainees
• Faces 17 criminal counts
• Espionage
• Lying to Air Force
• Court martial on April 27

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Civilian linguist Ahmed F. Mehalba

• Arrested
• Mishandling classified data and lying about it
• Pleaded not guilty
• Indicted by federal grand jury in November

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Army Reserve Col. Jack Farr

• Charged in November
• Transporting classified materials without proper
  containers and lying when questioned
• Only of three to remain on duty

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Capt. James Yee

• Detained
• Suspicion of espionage

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Punished

• Solitary confinement in military brigs for 76
  days
• Made international news for being a Muslim cleric
  in US military under suspicion of spying, aiding
  enemy, mutiny and sedition

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Dropped

• Once in court Yees charges were dropped
• Military immediately charged him with pornography
  on government-owned computer and committed
  adultery

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Punished

• Reprimanded for administrative offenses
• Later cleared of all charges

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Earlier Charges

• Al Qaeda spy
• Accused adulterer
• Free man with a clean record

Army Captain James Yee with daughter
Sarah Picture taken by ABC news in article Gag
Order?
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Silenced
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• Letter from Yees commander Army Lt. Col. Marvin
  S. Whitaker ORDERED Yee to withhold any speech
  violating vague and malleable criteria under
  threat by Uniform Code of Military Justice

http//abcnews.go.com/media/flash/images/OrderonPr
esentationsandPublicCommentary.pdf
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