Surreptitiously shipping classified lists to a left-wing group will get a sailor/lawyer sunk real fast.
Mathew M. Diaz apparently never got the lesson on "Loose lips sink ships", not to mention how divulging classified information is a surefire way to sink your career and future prospects.
And it was not just any classified list either:
The Kansas Supreme Court has disbarred a former Navy lawyer who mailed a classified list of Guantanamo detainees to the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Ex-Navy Lawyer Is Disbarred for Sending Secret Names of Gitmo Detainees to Legal Group
It was also clearly not a mistake or spur-of-the-moment stupidity:
Diaz had printed the detainee names, cut the list into strips, and placed them in a Valentine’s Day card to Barbara Olshansky, the deputy legal director for the Center of Constitutional Rights, according to findings of fact cited by the court.
This was far from being some act of heroic dissident. He admitted that he was too much or a coward to even take this up with his chain of command, or do an open act of disobedience and take the consequences for his beliefs and acts, instead he decided to try to surreptitiously leak his way to glory:
The court noted, however, that Diaz did not take his concerns to higher-ups because, by his own testimony in court-martial proceedings, “I wasn't really to put—willing to put my neck on the line and jeopardize my career.” The information he disclosed also could have been used to identify detainee interrogation teams, putting them at potential risk, the court said.Disbarment is appropriate, the court said, given the nature of Diaz’s criminal violations and his “admitted selfish reasons for the clandestine disclosure of classified information.”
So Diaz ended up with 4 felonies, 6 months in confinement - which seems a little light, and a disbarment, not to mention dropping from the rank of Lt. Commander to nothing. All on behalf of Guantanamo detainees who would likely kill him and other Americans if they got half a chance.
He chose....poorly.
3 comments:
D-bag Award!
6 months does seem a little light, but maybe he'll get Leavenworth.
I was shocked by some of the comments in that article. Do the apologists have absolutely no shame? This seems as clear cut as it gets and yet some still equate Diaz with a martyr.
Mind boggling.
He is a coward, a traitor, a willing dhimmi and a shmuck.
And those are his POSITIVE attributes!
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