Lawyer guilty of mailing Gitmo detainee list

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<p><a href=“http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/05/navy_diaz_guilty_070517w/[/url]”>http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/05/navy_diaz_guilty_070517w/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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After three hours of deliberation, a military jury found Navy lawyer Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz guilty of sending secret information form Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a civil rights attorney in January 2005…

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<p><a href=“http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/05/navy_diaz_sentence_070518w/[/url]”>http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/05/navy_diaz_sentence_070518w/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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He claimed he was trying to do the right thing by leaking information held in secret by the government, but seven Navy officers did not agree. After deliberating for three and a half hours, the jury sentenced Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz to six months’ confinement and dismissal from the Navy.</p>

<p>Jurors asked in their recommendation to the convening authority, Rear Adm. Fredric Ruehe, that Diaz’s pay not be forfeited during his six-month confinement. Diaz has several dependents, including an ex-wife, a wife, a daughter, his mother and his father, who is on death row in California…

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