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Treason

Law Enforcement Traitors

Diane Dimond | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Margarita Crispin, US Customs and Protection, Drugs Across the Border, Diane Dimond Weekly Column, Michael Gilliland, Treason, ABC News, Terrorists Cross the Border in America, Feds Accept Bribes, Bribes at the Border, Fbi, World News
Diane Dimond

For the right price, some who have sworn to protect America are helping illegal aliens enter the country undetected and are allowing millions of dollars in illegal drugs to pass through border checkpoints.

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Treason and Sedition

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservative Talk Radio, Treason, Right Wing, Michele Bachmann, World Net Daily, Newsmax, Rick Perry Secession, Sedition, Eliminationism, Politics News
Matt Osborne

Sedition is an attempt to overthrow the constitutional government of the United States. That's how far un-American rhetoric has penetrated the conservative movement.

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Why Health Care Reform May Kill the USA

Steven G. Brant | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Constitutional Law, John Boehner, Maturity, Health Care Reform, Treason, Democracy, U.S. Constitution, Pbs Newshour, Constitution, John Wayne, Rebellion, Health Care, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

My waking nightmare was prompted by House Minority Leader John Boehner's appearance on the PBS NewsHour Thursday night. Why is he speaking so positively of "rebellion"?

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What Sarah Palin and Other Patriotic Traitors Think About Health Care Reform: "Soylent Green Is People!"

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Soylent Green, Town Hall Meetings, Sean Hannity, Seven Days in May, Treason, George W. Bush, Birthers, Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Trig Palin, Burt Lancaster, Palin Health Care, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

When I call Sarah Palin a patriotic traitor, I'm not equating her with Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, or Kim Philby. I have no reason to doubt that she loves the United States.

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The Meaning of Treason

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communists, Nazis, Torture, Treason, Hannity, Cheney, 9/11, Rebecca West, Limbaugh, Beck, Bush, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

I first read Rebecca West's Meaning of Treason in the 1990s. At the time I was more interested in the looping grace of West's sentences than in h...

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harman, Jingoism, Abuse, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Jane Harman, Cheney, Democratic, Majority, Media, Policy, Bush Policy, Cindy Sheehan, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboard, Speaker, Briefed, House, Panetta, Interrogation, Amnesty, Democrat, Treason, Speaker of the House, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Congress, Press, Democrats, Detainee, Briefing, Classified, Prisoner, Secret, Chris Weigant, Traitor, Leak, Waterboarding, Minority, Senate, Classified Information, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Torture and Treason

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Treason, Waterboarding, Democrats, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The question of the moment is now, no longer: Is torture un-American? It is: Are we, as a nation, bigger than our transgressions?

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Torture is Treason

Lara M. Gardner | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Terrorism, Freedom, 9/11, Treason, World Trade Center, United States, Society, Torture, World News
Lara M. Gardner

Whether the tortured committed the crime or not becomes secondary to the sympathy felt for the torture victim.

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Why Limbaugh Is Right to Oppose Obama's Economic Policies

Lee Stranahan | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cpac, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Speech, Michael Moore, Ann Coulter, President Obama, Crossfire, Treason, Pilgrims, Democrats, Benjamin Franklin, Republicans, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh wants Barack Obama's economic policies to fail. He said it, he said it again, and he said it again at CPAC. Limbaug...

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Russia's Counter-Reformation

Brian Whitmore | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Human Rights, Legal System, Jury Trials, Treason, Dissent, Espionage, World News
Brian Whitmore

Aleksandr Podrabinek knows a creeping police state when he sees one. As a Soviet-era dissident he was a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rig...

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Could Gitmo Get Worse? The Policy Implications of Executive Accountability

Shahid Buttar | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Rule of Law, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Treason, Surveillance, Obama Transition, Dick Cheney, Torture, Special Prosecutor, Congress, Accountability, Eric Holder, Military Commissions, 9/11, Paul Wellstone, 9-11, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

If we can't attain a national consensus against surveillance trampling the rights of every American, what hope exists of a progressive consensus emerging on torture or detention?

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Russia Set To Redefine "Treason" And "Espionage"

Betraying The Motherland | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Treason, Russia Redefining Treason, Espionage, Russia Espionage, World News

At the behest of Vladimir Putin's government, Russian lawmakers are about to give the legal definitions of treason and espionage a little makeover. Ju...

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