Navy Lawyer Charged with Gitmo Leak
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz, a 40-year-old career US Navy officer who served as a legal consultant at Guantanamo, has just been criminally charged with mailing classified information to an unauthorized person. It seems that some time between 2004 and 2005---during the period that the US was declining to say who was being held at Gitmo---Diaz transmitted classified documents listing names and other identifying information of detainees. Nobody’s saying to whom the names were sent other than it’s someone at a US-located NGO. If convicted, Diaz could get more than 36 years in prison. WILL DUNHAM of Reuters and LARRY O’DELL of AP both have the story.