Commentary: Captain James Yee

'He is not guilty and he is not innocent': The troubling case of James Yee in the new era of homeland security"

By Oliver Burkeman
Mar 30, 2004, 10:52

When Guantánamo chaplain Captain James Yee was arrested allegedly with secret documents about the prison, he was threatened with execution and branded a traitor. So why after 200 days in jail was he only charged with adultery and quietly released? Oliver Burkeman on a strange and troubling tale from the new American era of homeland security