“Why Peter Strzok has not been charged with treason is a mystery.”
Not surprising to me. Sure, he’s a scumbag lowlife, but under the law, can you say he was treasonous?
I don’t know. Any attorneys here want to weigh in?
“Not surprising to me. Sure, he’s a scumbag lowlife, but under the law, can you say he was treasonous?”
One thing Strzok and Page are sure to be charged with is illegally leaking to the media. In the second set of texts released this week, they admit it.
The OIG has all their texts thru July when they were removed from the Mueller “investigation”.
Since Strzok was involved in the Flynn interview/entrapment, i’m sure S & P texted about that “success” as well.
Also, the Flynn surveillance transcript was illegally leaked as well. My guess is S&P foolishly did that as well to “spike the ball”, and likely text about that “success” also.
Then there are all the leaks from early in the Mueller investigation.
S&P did a large number of illegal act which their foolish texts helpfully document. They also appear to have commented heavily about the actions of their co-workers and superiors, which means their is a written record of others bad acts as well.
Talk about the Curse of Trump !
Attorney here. Not a treason defense attorney but this is the definition of treason under the US Code:
“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” c.f. 18 U.S. Code § 2381
Now, we might want to say Strzok, in giving aid and comfort to Hillary Clinton, was definitely helping an enemy of the United States, but I don’t think that what the statute means (slight sarcasm alert)
There are other serious crimes for an official of the United States Government to actively interfere in an election or to actively promote the removal of a sitting president by promulgating false information received from a foreign power and it does start to smell of treason because you are also aiding that foreign power to achieve its objective of undermining our electoral process, weakening our institutions and causing the public to lose faith in their own country.