by TChris

Last month, TalkLeft pointed to editorials calling upon the military to apologize to Captain James Yee for its misguided effort to prove that he's a spy. After initially accusing Yee of espionage and then charging him with (among other things) mishandling classified material, the military eventually dropped all criminal charges while convicting Yee of administrative offenses for marital infidelity and storing pornography on a government computer. Yee was reprimanded for those alleged offenses.

Those convictions have been overturned.

The appellate decision by Army Gen. James Hill, the Southern Command chief who oversees U.S. military operations at Guantanamo, wipes the slate clean for Capt. James Yee, who had been assigned to minister to prisoners at the base in Cuba.

Yee's civilian lawyer, Eugene Fidell, called the proceedings "a hoax by any standard." He said he could not prepare a defense because the Army did not disclose the evidence against Yee until 11 minutes before Yee's hearing began.

The military still has not apologized to Yee, but the reprimand will be removed from his service record.