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Mr. Ayers is probably safe from prosecution anyway. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department said there was a five-year statute of limitations on Federal crimes except in cases of murder or when a person has been indicted.
I don’t recall a “statute of limitations” on treason as defined in our Constitution. The Weather Underground were a pro-North Vietnamese army group who engaged in guerilla warfare against the military and police in the United States.