Comment Re:Not the military's job. (Score 1) 805
The constitution places the power to declare war and issue letters of marque with the congress, not the executive. It's up to the congress to tell the military who's an enemy, not the other way around.
Whoever has taken it upon themselves to do this has libeled Assange.
-jcr
I'll probably get modded to -1 for saying this and appearing to be anti-assange (which I am not) but I think all this is being taken out of context.
If you read the offending document (US Air Force charges against an unknown female USAF Analyst) it simply states as one of the "Matters" a charge of "Communicating with the enemy"... it doesn't say that Assange and or Wikileaks are "the enemy".
To be honest I feel that lately Assange is making himself look more and more paranoid... probably to the delight of the US Govt.
The US Govt. will probably let him carry on about it in the media for a while and then in a few weeks discredit him with a media release stating that the document has been incorrectly interpreted and that Assange / Wikileaks have not (as yet) been declared an enemy of the state.