[John Beresford Tipton]

Because the founding fathers were aware of how easy for the party in power to accuse the opposition of "Treason" they made it particularly difficult to prove, defining it in the Constitution. So if you have to charge a defendant you do not charge with the damn near impossible to prove if the easier to prove is available.

[inquest]

But in order to legally justify sending someone to a military tribunal, it seems you'd have to establish the same thing you'd need to establish in order to convict someone of treason. Right?