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<ref name="Miami Herald1">{{citenews | first=Carol | last=Rosenburg | coauthors= | title=Naval lawyer guilty of spilling captives' names |date=May 17, 2007 | publisher=Miami Herald | url=http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/110354.html | work=MiamiHerald.com | pages= | accessdate =May 19, 2007 }}</ref> Early in [[2005]] as LCDR Diaz was concluding his tour, he sent an anonymous note to a New York civil liberties group containing the names of the detainees held at the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]].
<ref name="Miami Herald1">{{citenews | first=Carol | last=Rosenburg | coauthors= | title=Naval lawyer guilty of spilling captives' names |date=May 17, 2007 | publisher=Miami Herald | url=http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/110354.html | work=MiamiHerald.com | pages= | accessdate =May 19, 2007 }}</ref> Early in [[2005]] as LCDR Diaz was concluding his tour, he sent an anonymous note to a New York civil liberties group containing the names of the detainees held at the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]].
<ref>{{citenews | first=Brooks | last=Egerton | coauthors= | title='Moral decision' jeopardizes Navy lawyer's career |date=May 18, 2007 | publisher=The Dallas Morning News | url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051807dnproguantanamo.7b28e8e1.html | work=DallasMorningNews.com | pages= | accessdate =May 19, 2007 }}</ref> In [[July]] [[2006]], the United States government formally charged Diaz in a military court with five criminal counts related to the improper disclosure of classified information to an individual unauthorized to receive it. In [[May]] of [[2007]], he was convicted by a seven member jury of military officers on 4 of 5 counts. Pending appeals, he is to serve a 6 month prison sentence and be subsequently discharged from the military.
<ref>{{citenews | first=Brooks | last=Egerton | coauthors= | title='Moral decision' jeopardizes Navy lawyer's career |date=May 18, 2007 | publisher=The Dallas Morning News | url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051807dnproguantanamo.7b28e8e1.html | work=DallasMorningNews.com | pages= | accessdate =May 19, 2007 }}</ref> In [[July]] [[2006]], the United States government formally charged Diaz in a military court with five criminal counts related to the improper disclosure of classified information to an individual unauthorized to receive it. In [[May]] of [[2007]], he was convicted by a seven member jury of military officers on 4 of 5 counts. Pending appeals, he is to serve a 6 month prison sentence and be subsequently discharged from the military.

==Family Background==
Diaz is the son of convicted [[serial killer]] [[Robert Diaz]]. <ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21Diaz-t.html?pagewanted=4&_r=1|title= Naming Names at Gitmo|accessdate=2007-10-26|author= Tim Golden}}</ref>


==Military career==
==Military career==

Revision as of 21:47, 26 October 2007

For the Major League baseball player, see Matt Diaz.

Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Matthew M. Diaz is a former staff judge advocate in the U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General's Corps. [1] [2] In mid-to-late 2004, Diaz served a six month tour of duty in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as deputy director of the detention center's legal office. [3] Early in 2005 as LCDR Diaz was concluding his tour, he sent an anonymous note to a New York civil liberties group containing the names of the detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. [4] In July 2006, the United States government formally charged Diaz in a military court with five criminal counts related to the improper disclosure of classified information to an individual unauthorized to receive it. In May of 2007, he was convicted by a seven member jury of military officers on 4 of 5 counts. Pending appeals, he is to serve a 6 month prison sentence and be subsequently discharged from the military.

Family Background

Diaz is the son of convicted serial killer Robert Diaz. [5]

Military career

Diaz, 41, is reported to have spent most of his adult life in military service. [6] The Virginia Pilot reports that Diaz served eight years as an enlisted man in the United States Army, prior to being commissioned in the USN's Judge Advocate General Corps.

Charges

On July 28, 2006, Diaz was formally charged with improperly mailing suspected classified information about detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba to an individual unauthorized to receive it (the Center for Constitutional Rights).[6] Diaz was convicted. On May 18, 2007, he was sentenced to six months in prison and will face dismissal from the Navy. [7]

The suspect document

Barbara Olshansky, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, was the recipient of the document, placed alongside an unmarked Valentines Day card.[8][9] The 39 page list of captives' names she received was unsolicited. The list contained the names of 550 captives. The list had seven fields per entry.[10] The 558 names in the official list of captives whose enemy combatant status was confirmed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal had just three fields. According to the background page to the charges against Diaz, the other six fields of the entries describing captives were:

Internment Serial Number
  • The two official lists both contain an ISN, which seems to be some kind of identification number, but they don't say what it is.
  • The ISN numbers of the 759 captives on the two official lists ran from 2 through 1457, with the exception of six captives who were captured in Bosnia, and Martin Mubanga who was captured in Africa. Their ISNs were in the range 10001 through 10007. The 14 high value captives transferred from CIA custody to military custody in Guantanamo are had ISN's in the range 10011 through 10024.
Source Identification number (if present) ?
GTMO Identification number ?
nationality

country of citizenship

 Both of the official lists name just one country associated with each captive.
Collection Management & Dissemination team number ?

The captives' names had not, at that time, been officially confirmed.[9] Olshansky suspected the list might have been classified, so she contacted Federal authorities.

Diaz was not directly involved in either the defense or prosecution of the ten detainees who faced charges before the Guantanamo military commissions.[6] He served as a legal advisor to the JTF-GTMO, the command responsible for detention operations.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Navy says officer passed secret Guantanamo data, Washington Post, August 30 2006
  2. ^ Sung, Michael (May 19, 2007). "Former Guantanamo military lawyer sentenced to 6 months for leaking names". Jurist Legal News and Research. University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Retrieved May 19, 2007. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ Rosenburg, Carol (May 17, 2007). "Naval lawyer guilty of spilling captives' names". MiamiHerald.com. Miami Herald. Retrieved May 19, 2007. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ Egerton, Brooks (May 18, 2007). "'Moral decision' jeopardizes Navy lawyer's career". DallasMorningNews.com. The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved May 19, 2007. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ Tim Golden. "Naming Names at Gitmo". Retrieved 2007-10-26.
  6. ^ a b c Navy lawyer once posted at Cuba base is charged, Virginia Pilot, August 29 2006
  7. ^ Jury Recommends 6 Months for Topeka Lawyer, WIBW, May 18 2007
  8. ^ http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/18/navy.lawyer.ap/index.html
  9. ^ a b Jeannie Shawl (Wednesday, May 9, 2007). "Jury selection begins in Guantanamo names court-martial". The Jurist. Retrieved May 9. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ "Response to Government motion requesting an Article 39a session and Defense motion to suppress evidence (.doc)". Department of the Navy General Court-Martial Navy and Marine Corps Trial Judiciary Central Judicial Circuit. March 12 2007. Retrieved May 9. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

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