[The_Rorschach]

Personally, regardless of his religious tendancies, the military is right in prosecuting Yee, and in fact must do so if only to uphold disciplinary standards. As a civilian, one is supposed to take incriminating evidence to the FBI, local police, McGruff truck whatever. . .In the military there is actually a prescribed operating procedure for how to deal with mismanagement and abuse of facilities, materials or men. Military personnell cannot act like Linda Tripp, hoard damning information, and take it to the press. Without formal consent, no service member is to act in any capacity which would represent an official source of information to the public.

They are required, may I repeat required, to report infractions first to their chain of command, and, should this not bring about change, to am impartial I.G. who would then lead and inquest into the outlined charges of misconduct. Even failing these there are prescribed measures which can be taken in order to ensure justice is served. There is no excuse for his having held schematices of the base and information pertaining to its occupants. There is no excuse for fratenizating between US troops and detainees. There is no excuse for possessing classified information outside of specified compartments. Furthermore, if he is a translater, that means he studied over at DLI, and if that is the case, after taking his DLAB, he should have reported all ties he had to anyone outside of the United States, and been responsible for updating that information quarterly. Terrorists or no, failure to offer such information is incriminating in and of itself.