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What John Walker did by leaving his California home and eventually fighting with the Taliban is treason [THE PRISONER, Dec. 17]. He was willing to bear arms for an organization that wants to destroy the U.S. I admire the restraint of those who captured him. I believe that if I had come upon him in Afghanistan, we wouldn't have had to face the problem of what to do with him. MELVIN HOUX Mancos, Colo...
...Afghanistan that the CIA and Pentagon had targeted for destruction. Partly because the Bush White House runs the most tightly controlled message operation Washington has seen in decades, Bush was seething when Karl Rove and Karen Hughes, two top advisers, came to his office that morning. "An act of treason was committed in the newspaper this morning," he said...
Sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; Justice Department; FBI; New York Times; Wall Street Journal; Treason, by Nathaniel Weyl
From the little that is known about Walker's case so far, legal experts say it is unlikely that he will face treason charges, for which the Constitution applies a maximum penalty of death. That's partly because the framers, mindful of how abusively treason had been applied in England, set a high standard of proof: a confession in open court, or at least two witnesses testifying to someone's waging an "overt act" of war against his country or giving aid and comfort to the enemy...
...Jangi prison revolt; in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Lindh, who gave his name as Abdul Hamid, converted to Islam at 16 and traveled to northern Pakistan via Yemen to study Arabic and the Koran, where his divorced parents had lost touch with him. He faces possible charges of treason, but cannot be tried by the U.S. special military tribunals...