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NPR's All Things ConsideredListen to this story...(at link)
by Ari Shapiro
All Things Considered, May 14, 2007 · The military trial has begun for U.S. Navy lawyer Matt Diaz, who is accused of leaking classified information to a civilian human rights lawyer. Diaz gave the names of 550 Guantanamo detainees to an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
The prosecutor told the jury that on Jan. 2, 2005, Lt. Cmdr. Matt Diaz sat in his office at Guantanamo Bay late at night, logged into his classified computer — and called up a spreadsheet: 39 pages containing the names of all 550 detainees at the prison camp, along with their serial numbers, nationalities and other data.
The prosecutor stood in front of the jury and held up a Valentine's Day card with a picture of a droopy-eyed Chihuahua.
"The accused cut the document so the nation's secrets would fit inside this card," he said. Diaz dropped the envelope in the mail on the last day of his six-month assignment at Guantanamo, the prosecutor said. (more at link)
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10173248
I guess this bit of News has slipped though the cracks here, so I'll sum this story up: The U.S. Government is accusing Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matt Diaz of "leaking" the names of all the people we are illegally holding at GTMO to the lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who requested that information in a Valentine's Day card with a picture of a droopy-eyed Chihuahua on it, so that she could sue the U.S. Government over our Government's illegal detention of these people, because that info was "Secret," except that it was never marked "Secret," so it was not Secret, but the Government is putting the guy on trial anyway.
Just read or listen to the story at the link above. It's still crazy, but at least they explaine it well.
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