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Source: ABC News
A military document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act identifies Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as an enemy but the Pentagon insists that was not intended as a legal designation of him per se.
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.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/are-troops-talking-to-assange-communicating-with-the-enemy/
So Assange is not considered an enemy target that the military needs to deal with, but communicating wth him is still considered 'communicating with the enemy'.