User:George Swan/Sandbox/Matthew Diaz
Matthew Diaz is a lawyer and an officer in the United States Navy.[1][2]
Military career
Diaz is reported to be approximately 40 years old, and to have spent most of his adult life in military service.[3][4][5] The Virginia Pilot reports that Diaz served eight years as an enlisted man in the United States Army, prior to being commissioned in the United States Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps.
Charges
Diaz faces eight charges. The charges include[5]:
- failing to obey a lawful general regulation;
- engaging in conduct unbecoming an officer by wrongfully transmitting classified documents to an unauthorized person; and *removing, printing and communicating to an unauthorized person classified secret information related to national defense.
In August of 2006. Duaz was formally charged with spying, for the unauthorized distribution of classified information about detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1][3] Diaz was not directly involved in either the defense or prosecution of the ten detainees who faced charges before the Guantanamo military commissions. He served as a legal advisor to the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants, the body authorized to conduct Combatant Status Review Tribunals and Administrative Review Board hearings.
Initially the identity of the organization Diaz passed the document to was kept from the public, as was the contents of the classified document.[6][7] The organization was the Center for Constitutional Rights. The document was a list of the names of the Guantanamo captives. The center played a leading role in the efforts to provide the captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, with legal assistance in submitting writs of habeas corpus. At the time Diaz sent the document to the Center the Department of Defense had not yet released the captives' identities. Two official lists of their identities were released on April 20 2006 and May 15 2006.[8][9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Officer charged over Guantanamo leak, Al Jazeera, Thursday, August 31, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- ↑ Joshua Pantesco. Navy lawyer charged with leaking secret Guantanamo Bay detainee names list, The Jurist, Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kate Wiltrout. Navy lawyer once posted at Cuba base is charged, Virginia Pilot, August 29 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- ↑ Ex-Guantanamo officer accused of passing secrets to be arraigned, International Herald Tribune, January 16, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sonja Barisic. Navy lawyer has ties to Topeka, Topeka Capital Journal, Tuesday, January 9, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
- ↑ Jeannie Shawl. Jury selection begins in Guantanamo names court-martial, The Jurist, May 9 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
- ↑ Jury Recommends 6 Months Prison for Topeka Lawyer, WIBW, May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
- ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20 2006
- ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15 2006