{"id":1978,"date":"2003-11-26T15:31:11","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/26\/capt-yee-charged-withbeing-a-shmuck\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:52:59","slug":"capt-yee-charged-withbeing-a-shmuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/26\/capt-yee-charged-withbeing-a-shmuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt. Yee charged with&#8230;being a shmuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12757,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/LAW\\\/11\\\/25\\\/guantanamo.chaplain&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20071201115213\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com:80\\\/2003\\\/LAW\\\/11\\\/25\\\/guantanamo.chaplain\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 02:06:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:502},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 04:05:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 04:05:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12758,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mcrcnet.org\\\/ENewsletters\\\/ENews_details.htm#32&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051102053239\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.mcrcnet.org:80\\\/ENewsletters\\\/ENews_details.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 02:06:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 02:06:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12759,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.muhajabah.com\\\/islamicblog\\\/archives\\\/veiled4allah\\\/007504.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120524085015\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.muhajabah.com\\\/islamicblog\\\/archives\\\/veiled4allah\\\/007504.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 02:06:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 02:06:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Back at the beginning of September, there was a bit of a fuss when Army Captain James Yee, who had been working with (ahem) &#8220;detainees&#8221; at Guantanamo Bay was suddenly held on suspicion of treason, espionage, and &#8220;aiding the enemy&#8221;. Well, charges against him have finally been filed. What has the military charged him with that caused all the ruckus?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/LAW\/11\/25\/guantanamo.chaplain\/\" title=\"Army adds charges against Guantanamo chaplain\">Two counts of failing to obey a lawful general order, adultery, conduct unbecoming an officer, making a false official statement and failure to obey an order or regulation<\/a> (the latter two charges stem from allegations that Yee viewed and stored pornography on a government computer).<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so apparently the guy was a bit of a shmuck, not to mention a bit of an idiot if he was using government hardware for pornography, and was definitely breaking regulations (if all the allegations are true). But come on &#8212; treason and espionage are <em>serious<\/em> charges, and I would expect that the government wouldn&#8217;t be bandying them about unless they had some definite hard evidence of such behavior. Now, two and a half months later, these are the only official charges that they&#8217;ve been able to produce?<\/p>\n<p>Chances are, the stories about Yee&#8217;s official charges won&#8217;t get nearly as much press, though. They&#8217;ll be buried four or five pages back in the newspapers, all most people will remember is how some Filthy Traitor was caught by Our Government, and they&#8217;ll never hear how inconsequential (at least in comparison to treason and espionage) the actual charges are. It&#8217;s a sadly typical situation these days, really.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Yee has been released pending trial, but some are wondering about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcrcnet.org\/ENewsletters\/ENews_details.htm#32\" title=\"Motive for new charges against Muslim chaplain questioned\">motives of the new charges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Huda Sobuh, Captain Yee&#8217;s wife, told CAIR-Seattle: &#8220;I believe emphatically that my husband is innocent of all these charges. I stand by him. It is clear to me the U.S. government only wants to destroy his reputation and his family. They will not succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;These new allegations, including as they do serious violations of Islamic moral principles, have the odor of a smear campaign about them,&#8221; said Ibrahim Mohamed, CAIR-Seattle chairman. &#8220;A cynical person might question the government&#8217;s motivation for bringing these charges after having failed to back up earlier leaks pointing to espionage and support for terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;To bring adultery into a case that began with public allegations of aiding the enemy is really outrageous, and the type of thing that can give military justice a bad name,&#8221; said Eugene Fidell, Yee&#8217;s civilian attorney.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muhajabah.com\/islamicblog\/archives\/veiled4allah\/007504.php\" title=\"cynicism and sarcasm seem to be the best response\">Al-Muhajabah&#8217;s Islamic Blog<\/a> provides some advice from the Quran, advice which I find to be applicable in <em>many<\/em> situations these days.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  First, as a general rule, one should never blindly accept accusations from a source with questionable motives: <em>O you, those who have faith! If a corrupt person brings you tidings, verify it, lest you attack some folk in ignorance and afterward repent of what you did.<\/em> (Quran 49:6). Second, and specifically dealing with accusations of adultery, proper proof is required&#8230;: <em>Why, when they heard this, did the faithful men and the faithful women not think better among themselves and say: This is a clear lie? Why do they not bring four witnesses? Whoever does not bring witnesses, such people are liars in Allah&#8217;s sight.<\/em> (Quran 24:12-13)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two counts of failing to obey a lawful general order, adultery, conduct unbecoming an officer, making a false official statement and failure to obey an order or regulation (the latter two charges stem from allegations that Yee viewed and stored pornography on a government computer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}