CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In the meantime, other news tonight. CNN has learned that a Muslim chaplain in the U.S. Army may have been doing more than offering spiritual guidance. Army Captain James Yee has been arrested on suspicion of espionage and possibly treason. Pentagon correspondent Chris Plante has that story.</s>CHRIS PLANTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: U.S. Army Captain James Yee, a Muslim chaplain who had been assigned to Guantanamo Bay since November 2002, is now in U.S. military custody on suspicion of espionage and possibly treason. While no formal charges have yet been filed, Yee, who is a Chinese American, was arrested September 10th at the Naval Air Station at Jacksonville, Florida, when he was returning from his duties at Guantanamo Bay. He's now being held at a Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina. Officials say at the time of his arrest, he had in his possession classified documents, including diagrams of the facility there, lists of detainees, and notes on interrogations and interrogators. Sources say he may have also had contact with radical Muslims or Muslim groups already under investigation in the United States. The officials would not elaborate, but suggested that the original tip leading them to Yee may have come from those investigations. Navy, Army and FBI investigators have all have turns of interviewing him. Yee is a 1990 West Point graduate and left the Army after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. He then moved to Syria for four years, where he studied Islam, then returning to the United States, rejoining the Army, where he became a Muslim chaplain. Chris Plante, CNN, the Pentagon.
Army Muslim Chaplain Arrested on Suspicion of Espionage