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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.

1 Family Background
2 Military career
3 Charges
4 The suspect document
5 References
6 External links

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.