Chaplain Yee and Guantanomo
Show #1104

As a West Point graduate and a third-generation Chinese-American, raised in Springfield, James Yee took pride in his appointment as the Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay. But in ministering to the prisoners, he says, he also became an advocate for their humane treatment – and incurred the wrath of his superiors. The result, he says, was his own arrest and imprisonment on charges of suspected espionage … charges that were later dropped, but only after two and a half months in solitary confinement.

In this edition of Due Process, Yee talks to Sandra King - not only about his own case, but also about the treatment of the detainees at Guantanamo, whom he says were subjected to both physical and psychological torture.

Raymond Brown continues the exploration of the truth about Guantanamo with studio guests Joshua Denbeaux, defense counsel for two of the Guantanamo detainees and co-author of two in-depth studies of Guantanamo, and immigration attorney Sohail Mohammed, a nationally active Muslim rights activist. And we get the opposing side from Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who prosecuted the blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, and a dozen others for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, who is now a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies