"Sounds like treason to me."
It is treason.
Thanks to the Swifts, the problem that faced Nixon (and the Justice Department and the Defense Dept.) in '71 won't face voters today: How does anyone enforcing the LAW (whether Military Code of Justice or the U. S. Constitution) act against a bemedaled hero? His medals gave him the cover and the confidence and the armor to make the claims and attend the meetings he did. The Swifts, rather brilliantly, I think, decided to put the cart back behind the horse where it belonged. Discredit the medals (which NO ONE had dared to question before), THEN go after the crimes. And if the insufferable egotist hadn't gone after the presidency (NEVER MIND in the WAY he went after the presidency), none of this would have interrupted his meaningless life.