19 Facts About James Yee

James Joseph Yee was born on c 1968 and is an American former United States Army chaplain with the rank of captain.

James Yee worked as a Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay detention camp and was subjected to an intense investigation by the United States for espionage and other crimes, but all charges were later dropped.

James Yee, a Chinese American, was born in New Jersey and raised in Springfield Township, where he attended Jonathan Dayton High School.

James Yee converted to Islam in the early 1990s and studied religion in Syria, after which he obtained a letter of equivalency from Leesburg, Virginia's Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, which enabled him to qualify for certification as a military chaplain.

James Yee was charged with five offenses: sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, espionage, and failure to obey a general order.

James Yee was then transferred to a United States Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina.

All court-martial charges against James Yee were dropped on March 19,2004, with Maj.

James Yee was then accused of adultery and storing pornography on a government computer; and non-judicial punishment under Article 15, UCMJ was imposed.

James Yee left the US military with an honorable discharge in January 2005.

In October 2005 James Yee published his book, For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire.

James Yee wrote that he was kept in solitary confinement for seventy-six days, and that he was forced to undergo sensory deprivation.

James Yee wrote that General Geoffrey Miller routinely incited the guards to hate the detainees.

James Yee argues that most of the detainees had little or no intelligence value about Osama bin Laden or al-Qaida's inner circle:.

In July 2006, James Yee was stopped at the border while returning from a trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, to see Cirque du Soleil.

James Yee was detained at the border for 75 minutes.

In December 2007, James Yee made a statement on Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks, who he regularly counselled while working at Guantanamo Bay.

James Yee was a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention from Washington's 9th congressional district, pledged to support Barack Obama.

James Yee has spoken about what he witnessed at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to audiences around the world.

James Yee underwent religious training in Syria, where he met his wife Huda, a Palestinian.