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2016 Postmortem

HoneyBadger

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4. Anyone can be accused of treason

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 11:01 AM

Dec 2016

Only about 30 Americans have been convicted and if you look at each from the politics and freedoms we enjoy today, I doubt that any should ever have been convicted. It is actually quite interesting to look at each case.

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The Issue Is Treason [View all] UCmeNdc Dec 2016 OP

K&R! DemonGoddess Dec 2016 #1

+1 triron Dec 2016 #7

That's the whole story. K&R shraby Dec 2016 #2

That and why isn't Comey in jail? uponit7771 Dec 2016 #3

Anyone can be accused of treason HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #4

Well let's investigate and see where the evidence leads UCmeNdc Dec 2016 #6

And Trump invited it triron Dec 2016 #5

precisely.. nt TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #8

If it's not about war it's not treason onenote Dec 2016 #9

When you plot with another nation against the United States it is treason UCmeNdc Dec 2016 #10

I'm all in favor of having an investigation onenote Dec 2016 #12

It's already politicized...and it *IS* treason. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #14

Still not sure who died and made you the final arbiter of what is covered by the treason clause onenote Dec 2016 #15

Perhaps you think you are the final arbiter of what is covered by it, and I steal your joy LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #16

My message is far more "honed" than yours. onenote Dec 2016 #17

That's *right*, it *is*. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #18

kick. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #11

kick for visibility triron Dec 2016 #13

knr triron Dec 2016 #19

With Putin now being implicated as directly involved in the hacking triron Dec 2016 #20