Mishandling of classified information by the legal staff at America’s prison for terrorism suspects undermines the military’s case against a Muslim chaplain charged with security breaches, his lawyer said Wednesday. Army Capt. James Yee had been scheduled to face the military version of a preliminary hearing Tuesday at Fort Benning, Ga., on charges he mishandled secret information at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But the hearing was postponed after prosecutors discovered that legal staff at Guantanamo had mistakenly included a classified document in investigation packets delivered to Yee’s attorney and the hearing officer, Army Lt. Col. Bill Costello of the U.S. Southern Command said Wednesday.
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