<p>Military officials are scrambling to approve the release of documents confiscated three months ago as a preliminary hearing continues Tuesday for a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified information from the U.S. prison for terror suspects.</p><p>I have a lot of frustration, said Eugene Fidell, defense attorney for Army Capt. James Yee. The governments cart is before the horse. Its crazy.</p><p>Fidell told the military judge, Col. Dan Trimble, that he cant properly defend Yee without seeing the documents, which include two small notebooks, a typewritten page and a term paper on Syria that Yee had written for a college course on international affairs.</p><p>Yee was arrested Sept. 10 in Jacksonville, Fla., as he returned for a holiday from Guantanamo, Cuba, where he worked with prisoners.</p><p>Yee was held in a Navy brig for 76 days on charges of disobeying an order for allegedly taking classified documents to his quarters in Cuba and for improperly transporting classified documents.</p><p>After his release from the brig, Yee was charged with storing pornography on his government laptop computer, making a false statement and adultery _ a crime under military law.</p><p>Navy Reserve Lt. Karen Wallace, testifying under a grant of immunity, said she had sex with Yee about 20 times at his quarters in Guantanamo and at a motel in Orlando, Fla., where he was attending a conference. She said she knew he was married.</p><p>Warrant Officer Jennie Callahan, a specialist with the Armys Computer Crime Unit, said she examined Yees laptop and found what she considered to be pornographic pictures.</p><p>Pornography, to me, is depicting sexual acts, she said.</p><p>Callahan had burned some of the images on a CD that was introduced as evidence. She said some were no more risque than pictures seen in a Victorias Secret or Fredericks of Hollywood catalog, but others were more explicit.</p><p>Callahan said she also found evidence that the computer had been used to access some adult Web sites, such as Ebony Preteen, Ebony Models, White Teen Girls and Jamaican Girls.</p><p>Fidell challenged Callahans use of the word pornographic.</p><p>Are you an attorney? he asked. Can you tell Judge Trimble what is pornographic?</p><p>Callahan, who testified by phone, said she had consulted with legal authorities.</p><p>Fidell also requested access to two of the Guantanamo detainees referred to in some of the documents.</p><p>There is a reference to a detainee by number and another with no number, he told Trimble. We need access to those detainees.</p><p>Trimble said he would not rule one way or another at this point in proceedings.</p><p>If the defense was granted access to the detainees, who are held in isolation at the prison camp, the move would be unprecedented.</p><p>Fidell also asked the military to provide a security expert, a translator and the militarys official procedures for governing duties of a chaplain.</p><p>Prosecutors said the Army expected to complete its document review Tuesday.</p><p>Yee is a 1990 West Point graduate who left the military for four years to study Arabic and Islam in Syria. After his return to the Army as a chaplain, he counseled some of the 660 suspected terrorists from 44 nations being held at the remote base on the eastern tip of Cuba.</p><p>Yee is one of four who served at Guantanamo facing charges.</p><p>Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi, a Syrian-born Arabic translator, has pleaded not guilty to charges of espionage and aiding the enemy.</p><p>A civilian interpreter, Ahmad F. Mehalba, was arrested last month in Boston and charged with lying to federal agents by denying computer discs he was carrying had classified information from Guantanamo. He also has pleaded innocent.</p><p>On Nov. 29, Col. Jack Farr, an Army Reserve intelligence officer on six-month assignment to Guantanamo Bay, was charged with transporting secret documents without proper containers and with lying to investigators.</p>
