Are Troops Talking to Assange ‘Communicating With the Enemy’?
Sep 28, 2012 3:43pm
By Jake Tapper
... Air Force counter-intelligence documents obtained by the Sydney Morning Herald suggest that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks could be charged with “communicating with the enemy.”
But George Little, a spokesman for the Pentagon, tells ABC News that the “Department of Defense does not regard Mr. Assange as a member of the ‘enemy,’ a military objective, or someone who should be dealt with by the US military.”
Little says the Pentagon “has warned Mr. Assange and Wikileaks against soliciting service members to break the law by providing classified information to them, and that it is our view that continued possession by Wikileaks of classified information belonging to the United States government represents a continuing violation of law. We regard this as a law enforcement matter.”
The documents were part of a probe of whether an analyst violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, section 904, article 104 ...
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... .in terms of US credibility abroad ...
... and 5 weeks before the Nov 2012 General Election,
especially given what happened to the US Embassy in
Libya and all.
