If you mean Pollard, handing over classified secrets to an agent of a foreign government is also treason, but no one so far as I know is making that specific claim about architects or supporters of the war, either. Dishonesty and deceiving the public are different kinds of charges. Those are betrayals of public trust and represent violations of our constitutional system, but they are distinct from treason.

An ideologue with passionate attachments to the interests of other countries who also thinks that such passionate attachments are good for America (however confused or wrong his definition of what America is) may still understand that the public has to be deceived or manipulated into supporting a policy.

Motive and bias are critical to evaluating the truthfulness of someone. Anyone who knew anything about Douglas Feith knew that nothing honest was going to come out of his Office of Special Plans.

And I disagree that a traitor has to have faithfulness to an “enemy”. He only needs to do something harmful to the state to which he claims allegiance on behalf of the other state.

Otherwise, Pollack was not a traitor, was he?