From: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 02:36:39 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: U.S. Army Private Faces Spying Charges
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Peter Trei writes:

> If this guy is guilty (and I have no particular reason to doubt it), 
> I was still under the impression that treason carried the death penalty 
> only in wartime.

The death penalty for spying on the part of members of the military
was part of the new and improved federal death penalty passed a number
of years back.  It added some 35 new federal death penalty offenses.
I don't recall whether saying "Clinton sucks" was included amongst them.

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