Dear Editor,
President Biden, former President Trump, and former VP Pence get busted with mishandling classified information and walked away Scott free.
Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and still fresh on the minds of Muslims were two high profile cases of two U.S.-born Muslim converts: Brandon Mayfield, an attorney from Oregon, and James [Yusuf] Yee of Washington state. Mr. Mayfield was falsely accused by the government and was implicated with the Madrid bombing, while Captain James Yee, who served in the U.S. Army at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, was charged with espionage and many other serious offenses.
Later the government dropped all charges against both of them. The government agreed to settle with Mayfield who is white for $ 2 million, and offered him a formal apology: The federal government “regrets that it mistakenly linked Mr. Mayfield to this attack.” The U.S. Army lost valuable human resources. Captain Yee who is of Chinese origin received an honorable discharge, no apology, and he wrote a book about his ordeal to pay off his $200,000 legal expenses.
The shocking news about Biden, Trump, and Pence’s stories makes me wonder and compels me to ask the question, “is justice in American colorblind?”
Mahmoud El-Yousseph
