Free speech: U.S. military increases stakes in ‘communicating with the enemy’ charges

The United States military is using Article 104 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice to charge suspects with “communicating with the enemy.” The crime is a capital offense.

“The actual ‘enemies,'” writes Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian, “are those who abuse secrecy powers to conceal government actions and to threaten with life imprisonment or even execution those who blow the whistle on high-level wrongdoing.” -db

From a commentary for The Guardian, September 27, 2012, by Glenn Greenwald.

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