President Trump is considering stripping the security clearances of several former intelligence officials who have been critical of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. One of the targets is former CIA Director John Brennan who tweeted that Trump’s performance was, "...nothing short of treasonous.”
Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) July 16, 2018
On the heels of that July 16 tweet, the word "treason" began springing up everywhere, from news media headlines to crawls on cable TV news shows to opinion polls. The surge in popularity of this word, and it’s complicated meaning here in the US, rung the Curiosity Desk’s tuning fork. Edgar B. Herwick III joined Joe Mathieu on WGBH's Morning Edition to discuss it.
