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It certainly seems like it meets the definition. However, it seems excessive to charge espionage as a capital crime. Per Wikipedia: > Treason is the crime of
by jdavis703 5y ago
It certainly seems like it meets the definition. However, it seems excessive to charge espionage as a capital crime.
Per Wikipedia:
> Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.[1] This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.
- dvogel 5y agoWikipedia is good for general knowlege. Legal charges are made with respect to a specific statute. In the U.S. treason will only ever be charged when we are at war.
- throwaway81523 5y agoThere was a US Senator (John Breckinridge) who got expelled from the Senate for committing treason during the American Civil War. He did that by skipping out of the US Senate and joining the Confederate Army. He had quite a colorful career in the Confederacy while it lasted, fled to Europe after the war, and eventually returned to the US after the US gave a general amnesty to ex-Confederates in 1868. Wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge
- MattGaiser 5y agoTreason has a much narrower definition in US law. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/par... I think the problem is that it needs to involve an enemy of the USA to be treason. Enemy as in declared enemy, not just hostile to.