Colonel Jack Farr was a reserve officer, specializing in military intelligence, who was posted to Camp Delta at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Farr was the fourth serviceman charged with violating security procedures at the detention base. The others were Captain James Yee, a Muslim chaplain, and airman Ahmad Al Halabi and Ahmed F. Mehalba, Arabic translators.
Farr was charged with “wrongfully transporting classified material without the proper security container on or around October 11”, and lying to investigators. During a formal hearing, a U.S. Army Brigadier General threw out the charge of lying to investigators by stating that he had studied all the evidence and concluded that he did not believe that Colonel Farr lied to anyone about anything with regard to this matter. The General also dismissed the other charges against Colonel Farr.
Because Farr did not represent a "flight risk" he was not arrested or suspended. In contrast to Farr, Yee and Al Halabi were held in solitary confinement.