[taxcontrol]

No due process is required - the provision does NOT require conviction. Granted, I don't think it has a snow ball's chance of working....

[lelio]

No due process is required - the provision does NOT require conviction.

Then who decides what "given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof" means and if it applies to Kerry (if that's what your post was about)?

[ScottFromSpokane]

You're mistaken. It most certainly does require conviction. John Kerry, like everyone else, is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The only way to legally determine that he gave aid and comfort to the enemy is to convict him of doing so. Until that happens, the law says he didn't.

Compare the Washington State law against misprision of treason:

Every person having knowledge of the commission of treason, who conceals the same, and does not, as soon as may be, disclose such treason to the governor or a justice of the supreme court or a judge of either the court of appeals or the superior court, shall be guilty of misprision of treason and punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years or in a county jail for not more than one year.

Like the 14th Amendment, it says nothing about conviction. That doesn't mean that someone can be throw in jail without being convicted. The necessity for a conviction is implied.