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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeth Abramson: 'Aiding and abetting' a foreign adversary who attacks us. WTF is that? Not treason?
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)treason, as defined by the law and interpreted by the courts, consists of aiding and abetting an enemy in a declared war. It's traitorous, of course, but it's not indictable treason.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)The problem is that the only law declaring punishment for treason includes a definition of enemy effectively as you said.
So, Trump has committed treason, but Congress never got around to defining a punishment for treason with a hostile power not engaged in acts governed by the rules of war.
triron
(22,007 posts)triron
(22,007 posts)Russia attacked us at a most fundamental level. Putin will destroy us without firing a shot if
we don't wake up.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)The only place I've seen "enemy" defined is at:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/2204
But that only applies to that chapter.
triron
(22,007 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)it was treason
triron
(22,007 posts)triron
(22,007 posts)6/ Media is correctly noting that Mueller went beyond the question he was asked only *once* today: and it was *on that question* that I'm now saying he leveled a charge of aiding and abetting (a *serious* federal crime) against the President. We need to start discussing this now.
triron
(22,007 posts)Roosevelt inviting (and praising) Japan to attack mainland U.S. after Pearl Harbor.
Treason needs to be updated to modern era. Putin doesn't have to fire a shot to defeat us.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)I can't help myself.
Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)GOP and its wealthy enablers dont mind, for some reason.