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"Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort". U.S. Constitution, Article III ,Section 3. "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or any under any state, who, having previously taking an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state,...

Kerry is a meticulous, deliberative decision maker, always demanding more information, calling around for advice, reading another document - acting, in short, as if he were still the Massachusetts prosecutor boning up for a case. "He attacks the material, he questions things, he tries to get it right," said Richard C. Holbrooke, the former U.N. ambassador and an adviser to Kerry. His habit of soliciting one more point of view prompted one close adviser to say he had learned to wait until the last minute before weighing in: Kerry, he said, is apt to be most influenced by the last...

He is one of America’s best known, well respected television newsmen. But Dan Rather was fighting for his reputation today after documents he used in a story questioning President George Bush’s military service increasingly appeared to be fake. After initially insisting that the memos were genuine, the 72-year-old CBS anchorman has now conceded they could be forgeries.

The secretary for the squadron commander purported to be the author of now-disputed memorandums questioning President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard said Tuesday that she never typed the documents and believed that they are fakes.