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Any citizen of the United States wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries out any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or any agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or any official or agent thereof, in relations to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. – Logan Act, 1799 It is time...

I have no doubt that there may be a pilot alive in a secret cell in Baghdad.An unnamed spokesman says that the preferred method to solve the matter is through legal negoiations.Would he be referring to the same negoiations that helped to facilitate farcical weapons inspections in the years since the Gulf War? Probably.The United States needs to treat this issue seriously.Admittedly it will be difficult to pin Saddam to the wall of the life of a single US pilot lost ten years ago.If there is a pilot held in captivity by the Iraqi government, it is my hope that...