Its the difference between "de facto" and "de jure".
He met with the enemy while a commissioned officer. By any commonsense definition, that's treasonous. That's being a traitor.
Whether it meets a particular legal definition is a separate matter.
He met with the enemy while a commissioned officer. By any commonsense definition, that's treasonous. That's being a traitor.
Quick prayer here, "Oh lord, forgive me for giving even the appearance of sticking up for JF'n K, BUT..."
As I remember, his stated purpose for meeting with the NV was to try to obtain the release of POW's. Now, he may have been prohibited from having that sort of contact by the Logan Law, but trying to gain the release of POW's isn't exactly what I'd call "treasonous"... am I overlooking something?
A lot of the stuff he did post-Navy certainly had the stink of a turncoat, but in this particular case, was he doing something else besides trying to get the POW's out? I mean, Jessie Jackson has done this kind of stuff on several occassions, it's not really the same thing as turning over the West Point garrison to the British, IMHO.
OK, [grits teeth] shoot me down in flames...