None dare call it treason
Interesting article about the U.S. government's historical use of formally charging people with treason. Apparently there are very tough standards that have to be met to uphold such a charge, and the charge is rarely used. I had thought that the Rosenbergs were convicted of treason, for example, but it turns out they were charged instead with espionage. Article makes the fascinating point that the framers of the Constitution wanted to construe treason very narrowly indeed, and that part of that desire may've been the fact that by some definitions, they'd recently committed it themselves.