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TheCoelacanth on Jan 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer devic...

I think it would technically be espionage rather than treason, but still a very serious crime.

tim333 on Jan 18, 2021 [–]

Yeah under US law I think you'd have to giving the info to a nation the US was at war with for it to be treason. That came up a bit in the whole Trump Russia collusion debate.

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