Treason You Say?

Pete King, a Congressman from New York, would like the Justice Department to charge the New York Times with treason for reporting about the US tracking international monetary transfers through SWIFT. He claims it's treasonous. Well Pete, I was wondering if you'd like to also throw the books at some other people that have given "aid and comfort to our enemies", such as:

• Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush when they held back our troops at Tora Bora and let bin Laden get away?


• Alberto Gonzalez, who helped craft the memos that became the basis for the torturing done at Abu Graib and Gitmo. I can't think of any single act that's given more aid to our enemies in terms of their recruitment abilities.


• Scooter Libby and his boss Shooter Cheney, who by outing a CIA agent put her and all of her contacts at risk, and hurt our intelligence services abroad, giving both aid and comfort to our enemies.

I think we should start there, because those cases are much more clear-cut examples of treason, and then maybe we'll get around to trying the New York Times.