Sunday, November 30, 2003

The rapidly shrinking case against Guantanamo chaplain Yousef Yee is getting bad press, so another soldier is arrested, apparently on utterly trivial charges:

...Army Col. Jack Farr was charged Saturday with "wrongfully transporting classified material without the proper security container on or around Oct. 11," and lying to investigators, said a statement from the U.S. Southern Command.

Spokesman Lt. Commander Chris Loundermon, speaking from the command's headquarters in Miami, said he did not know if Farr had direct contact with detainees. He declined to describe the classified material.

...Farr is not under arrest and has not been suspended, Loundermon said: "He didn't present a flight risk and he was not likely to engage in any further serious misconduct."

Farr's charges have been forwarded to the base commander, who could dismiss them, refer them to a court-martial or direct a pretrial investigation....


Do they really expect this to make us take the Great Gitmo Espionage Scare more seriously?

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