Another Disgrace from The Cabal in the White House

Your corporate takeover government hard at work; a Navy lawyer will be prosecuted for releasing the kind of information that the White House is trying to hide. Seems the identities of some of the detainees at Guantanamo are dangerous to our security. This isn't habeas corpus, even, it's their NAMES for god's sake.

We are in real danger from this government, not the citizens who try to keep it from violating civil rights of such people as a bunch of stateless non-terrorists that no nation wanted to take, so it wasn't possible to find a place to send them.

A Navy lawyer will go on trial next week on charges of passing classified information about Guantanamo Bay detainees to an unauthorized person, the Navy announced Thursday.

Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, who was stationed at the U.S. base in Cuba for six months, could face more than 36 years in prison if convicted during the general court-martial scheduled to start Monday at Norfolk Naval Station.

The trial is expected to last a week, said Kevin Copeland, a Navy spokesman.

Diaz, 41, of Topeka, Kan., worked as a staff judge advocate at Guantanamo Bay, where he provided counsel to the military command in charge of the detention center but was not involved in detainees' cases, the Navy said. The U.S. military has held foreign citizens suspected of terrorist ties at the base since 2002.

Diaz is charged with failing to obey a lawful general regulation, engaging in conduct unbecoming an officer by wrongfully transmitting classified documents to an unauthorized person, and turning over to an unauthorized person secret information related to national defense.

The complaint does not specify what type of information Diaz is accused of printing and communicating, but a Navy spokeswoman has described it as a document containing names and other identifying information about Guantanamo detainees.

The Navy has declined to identify the recipient but said the individual notified federal authorities.

Diaz remains free and is stationed in Jacksonville, Fla., Copeland said.

Patrick McLain, a civilian attorney representing Diaz, did not return a phone message seeking comment Thursday.

The same injustice system that purposefully released the identity of a covert agent is going to prosecute not some one who endangered the agents trying to find out if WMDs were held in Iraq, no not the ones who actually endangered this country, but some one who didn't hide the names of who this ungovernment is holding in a facility that tortures but doesn't bring to trial its state secrets.

What a disgrace.