NAVY LAWYER FOUND GUILTY OF REVEALING NAMES OF GITMO DETAINEES

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(AP)"A Navy lawyer who gave a human rights attorney the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees was convicted in military court Thursday of communicating secret information that could be used to injure the United States.

Prosecutors said Diaz mailed an unsigned Valentine's Day card that included a printout of the detainees' names, nationalities, the interrogators assigned to them and intelligence sources and methods. They contend that his actions endangered the lives of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, and of American troops.

Defense attorneys said that the information was not labeled classified and that Diaz had no reason to think the document could be used to injure the U.S.

Patrick McLain, Diaz's civilian lawyer, acknowledged that his client sent a card to lawyer Barbara Olshansky containing names and other identifying information about detainees.

At the time, Olshansky worked for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit group that was suing the federal government to obtain the detainees' names. She turned the document over to federal authorities, and they traced it to Diaz.

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