Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9560-2003Oct23.html

On October 24, 2003 The Washington Post reported that "military authorities launched an investigation of Army Capt. James Yee, a Muslim chaplain at the Guantanamo Bay prison, after a series of confrontations between him and officials over the treatment of al Qaeda and Taliban detainees there, according to military officials and other informed sources. Yee, who ministered to the inmates at the U.S. Navy prison in Cuba, protested what he believed were lives of unrelieved tension and boredom experienced by his fellow Muslims in captivity, the officials and other sources said. Some interrogators at the prison complex objected after concluding that Yee's private, one-on-one meetings with inmates interfered with their attempts to fully control the prisoners' environment, numerous sources said. Some detainees appeared less cooperative in interrogations after visits from Yee, the sources said. On Oct. 10 Yee, a West Point graduate who converted to Islam, was charged by military authorities with mishandling classified information after authorities found maps of the prison and information about detainees in his possession. But the FBI and Defense officials continue to investigate whether he committed more serious offenses. He is in a Navy brig in South Carolina."