![]() drone strike in Pakistan.But in the three months since 6 January, however, there has been little public discussion of “treason” as the framework for understanding what happened, Larson said. with intent to betray the United States.” Before he could be put on trial, Gadahn was killed by a U.S. His 2006 federal indictment said he gave Al Qaeda “aid and comfort. since the World II era was Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American. The only American charged with treason against the U.S. Some also later received pardons or had sentences commuted. Several other Americans of Japanese and German descent were convicted of treason for giving aid and comfort to Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Some former prisoners of war in Japan also came forward to confirm that D’Aquino had smuggled food and medicine to them during their capture. authorities pressured some witnesses to lie. President Ford pardoned her after reports U.S. She served more than six years of a 10-year sentence before her release. She was convicted in 1949 of “giving aid and comfort” to Japan. Tokyo RoseĪmong the last convictions for treason was American-born Iva Toguri D’Aquino, known as Tokyo Rose during World War II for her anti-American broadcasts. and his hostile rhetoric was protected free speech. Abdel-Rahman, known as the “blind sheikh,” argued on appeal that he was never involved in planning actual attacks against the U.S. An Egyptian cleric, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, and nine followers were convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy and other charges in a plot to blow up the United Nations, the FBI’s building, and two tunnels and a bridge linking New York and New Jersey. Seditious conspiracy law was last successfully used in the 1990s in the prosecution of Islamic militants who plotted to bomb New York City landmarks. Oscar Lopez Rivera, a former leader of a Puerto Rican independence group that orchestrated a bombing campaign that left dozens of people dead or maimed in the 1970s and 1980s, spent 35 years in prison for seditious conspiracy before President Obama commuted his sentence in 2017. ![]() The activists and more than a dozen others who assisted in the attack were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Four pro-independence Puerto Rican activists rushed the building and opened fire on the House floor, wounding several representatives. Puerto Rican nationalistsĪmong the last successful convictions for seditious conspiracy charges were in another, now largely forgotten storming of the Capitol building in 1954. Three members of the militia pleaded guilty to weapons charges. But a judge ordered acquittals on the sedition conspiracy charges at a 2012 trial, saying prosecutors relied too much on hateful diatribes protected by the 1st Amendment and didn’t, as required, prove the accused ever had detailed plans for a rebellion. prosecutors brought such a case was in 2010 in an alleged Michigan plot by members of the Hutaree militia to incite an uprising against the government. Here are some notable treason and sedition cases from years past: Hutaree Militia Days before the attack, one defendant suggested in a text message getting a boat to ferry weapons across the Potomac River to their “waiting arms,” prosecutors say. ![]() Though authorities have said the Oath Keepers and their associates worked as if they were going to war, discussing weapons and training.
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