Tulsi Gabbard is wrong: Obama didn't commit treason
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Left: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard engages with the press in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson). Right: Former President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum, Dec. 5, 2024, in Chicago (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File).

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has joined President Donald Trump and some of his allies in broadly accusing political adversaries, this time targeting former President Barack Obama and members of his administration, of the crime of treason, which carries a death penalty. Regardless of Gabbard’s mentioned criminal referral to the DOJ, it cannot pertain to treason or a “treasonous conspiracy,” as she described it, and there is a straightforward reason supporting this.

Over time, Law&Crime has reported occasions where Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and others have indiscriminately invoked the term treason — yet there hasn’t been any treason prosecution initiated. Neither did special counsel John Durham’s review of the Russia investigation’s origins and “Obamagate” result in the widespread incarceration of influential Democrats, such as Obama and Joe Biden, a result that the president’s allies and backers had long anticipated.

Yet, DNI Gabbard spoke at a press briefing on Wednesday and — while not as bold as Trump’s statements that Obama was “caught directly,” is “guilty” and committed “treason” — nonetheless straightforwardly levied a “treasonous conspiracy” allegation.

“I’m leaving the criminal charges to the Department of Justice. I am not an attorney, but as I’ve said previously, when you look at the intent behind creating a fake manufactured intelligence document that directly contradicts multiple assessments that were created by the intelligence community,” she said, “the expressed intent and what followed afterward can only be described as a years-long coup and a treasonous conspiracy against the American people, our republic, and an attempt to undermine President Trump’s administration.”

But be clear, the focus of this piece is not on whether there’s any merit to Gabbard’s alternate history of Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan consensus about that interference and “efforts to influence the Trump Campaign and the 2016 election,” the Mueller probe, or even about Gabbard’s overarching narrative that the Obama administration and its officials “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump” during his first term.

Rather, let’s talk about treason, which happens to be the only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution, under Article III, Section 3.

The Constitution is clear that treason is “only” an offense in the context of aiding and comforting enemies of the U.S. during war.

“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort,” the law of the land reads. “No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”

18 U.S.C. § 2381, using virtually the same language, additionally notes that treason is a capital offense, again for one who, despite “owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere[.]”

The punishment is not only a potential death sentence, but short of that, “not less than five years” in prison, at least a $10,000 fine, and a ban from “holding any office under the United States.”

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