Posted on 01/28/2016 7:21:27 AM PST by rktman
It has a specific meaning in the UK, where the term originated, but has no legal meaning at all in the US.
"High" Treason was acting against the Crown, or its agents, directly, whereas "Petit' or "Petty" Treason was a crime against what was considered 'the natural order' such as a servant injuring or killing a master or mistress, or a wife killing her husband.
In accordance with The Constitution, there is only the crime of Treason (in fact, the only crime defined within said document), with a very specific definition. "High" Treason, as a term does not appear within The Constitution...
the infowarrior
If you read the wikipedia article, the conviction and death sentence were for 'conspiracy to commit espionage', not treason. To my best knowledge, *nobody* has ever been executed in the US on a conviction of a charge of treason, and precious dammned few have even been charged with said crime, as The Constitution made it difficult to prosecute, by design...
the infowarrior
I've never heard that one before. I don't think the Clintons have deep religious convictions of any kind.
It exists in the UK.
That’s nice, but the USA and FR isn’t the UK.
Her steadfast advocacy of Sharia Law has been well documented. Google it.
Doesn’t it fall under espionage? Losing secrets?
Handing them over to foreign agents and “simply losing” them are two way different things. You know what I mean.
18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
That's what I was thinking of.
if all goes well, the Trump AG will call the shots
It might take that long to develop the air tight case
Or hillary could resign the race and it might go away
I want her in an orange pant suit permanently.
obama, kerry, clinton are openly selling state secrets and giving $150 billion to terrorist nation who are getting the go ahead to build nuclear weapons to kill us. No arrests made.
Hillary couldn’t help herself. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The Chinese paid a lot to Bill to get their ICBMs working properly
There only one candidate that would pursue criminal charges on high level uniparty members, Trump.
BS
One more reason to back Trump...
When I was a serving officer of the U.S. Army, I was involved in one of the biggest espionage cases in the history of this country: the Clyde Conrad case. Clyde worked for me and I trusted him explicitly, as did my boss and all the way up to the Division Commander. We relied on Clyde and gave him the keys to the kingdom.
He turned out to be a traitor and in spite of my bad judgment, I helped to catch him and send him to prison for life where he died in misery as he deserved.
Clyde sold NATO defensive plans to the Hungarians who passed them on to the Soviets. Our tactical plans were compromised for every single day that Clyde Conrad had access to those plans. It was a major compromise of our ability to protect the Western World during the Cold War. He deserved a bullet in his brain, but the end was not to be for this scum, he died of natural causes.
What Hillary has done is far worse. Her private email server has been certainly compromised by the Chinese, the Russians, and who else. The security of the United States was thrown away in order to advance the political ambition of Hillary Clinton. The likely that all of the politicians, including the so called Republicans will gloss over this makes me physically sick.
It can be stated she was Secretary of State to advance her political ambitions.
She disregarded the security because just plain didn’t give a damn. Security is a right wing thing
recall that for many months, the people in the clinton White House didn’t have security clearances and it is likely some never did.
If we elect her, we are selecting a political organized criminal enterprise without any regard to the notion of the nation. Many will cast her ballot for her knowing quite well that that is their preference.
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