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Home Front: WoT
Six Months in Prison for Diaz
2007-05-19
Follow-up.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A military jury recommended Friday that a Navy lawyer be discharged and imprisoned for six months for sending a human rights attorney the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees. Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz was convicted Thursday of communicating secret information about Guantanamo Bay detainees that could be used to injure the United States and three other charges of leaking information to an unauthorized person.

The jury of seven Navy officers recommended that Diaz receive his pay and benefits while incarcerated, but the sentence must be approved by Rear Admiral Rick Ruehe. The dismissal will also be reviewed by a military appellate court, the Navy said.
Seems like a light sentence. Six months, then he'll have a job at the Center for Constitutional Rights and be a celebrity on the progressive circuit.
Diaz, who could have received up to 14 years in prison, gave emotional testimony during the sentencing hearing, apologizing for his actions. ``The prosecutors were right: I'm a meticulous man. I should have done better. It was extremely irrational for me to do what I did,'' Diaz said.
Irrational, inexplicable, inexcusable, criminial.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Good, as in "Goodbye and Good riddance" this conviction also tells the next "Moonbat Defender" to cool it or lose your ability to partake in very profitable scams. (IE Law practice)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-05-19 14:09  

#5  Federal felony conviction. Say bye-bye to ability to practice law.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-05-19 11:59  

#4  Call it the 'M*A*S*H' effect. A significant number of Navy 'professionals' (lawyers, medical people) tend to view the uniform as a distant second. Most of them are smart enough to remember where they are when they make decisions.
Posted by: Pappy   2007-05-19 11:56  

#3  I want to know "why" he did it. What was his incentive or motivation? Is he a plant - both ways? Seems odd.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-05-19 11:27  

#2  Very light sentence. Pay & benefits probably because he has a wife and kids. I doubt we'll be seeing Diaz on the agitprop circuit. His defense didn't raise the issues or use the media tactics that self-reighteous "political prisoners" usually do, suggesting that he's no true believer. Seems like he's prepared to take his lumps then go crawl in a hole. Bet he won't get a valentine from Barb.

Next on the docket: MAJ Mori. Please. C'mon, Navy, you can do it.
Posted by: exJAG   2007-05-19 09:06  

#1  Outrageous! And a "military jury" no less. They should be jailed along with Diaz for criminal negligence in the line of duty.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-19 00:56  

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