Can a vice-president be arrested for treason?

Can police walk up to his door and handcuff him just like anybody else? DUers mention impeachment but can he not be arrested and put in jail? If it is proved that he outed an active agent during war, which is an act of treason against our country, what happens to him?

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The Constitution doesn't explicitly say POTUS or VPOTUS are immune to criminal charge but case law
appears to have evolved to interpret it's language to mean that it can be done AFTER impeachment and conviction/removal. I don't agree with that interpretation but I don't get to decide.

Not wanting to sound fussy, but the language on Treason is very specific (Art II Sec 3):

Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. 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."

or whatever is left of them. My mind cannot conceive of those poor people in her network. If that network which was giving us needed intelligence regarding our "enemies" was destroyed, then outing her is treason. If you mean two witnesses in Cheney's office, I am hoping Libby and Mary Matlin or some of the reporters will sing like canaries.

The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.

By Sidney Blumenthal

Feb. 1, 2007 | Few issues more agitated and preoccupied Vice President Dick Cheney in the early months after the declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq than former ambassador Joseph Wilson's disclosure that the intelligence underlying the administration's central justification for the invasion was bogus. So far as the occupation of Iraq was concerned, Cheney was in a triumphal mood. In a speech before a conservative group in Washington on July 30, 2003, he repeated his rationales for the war with a sense of finality: "In Iraq, a dictator with a deep and bitter hatred of the United States, who built, possessed and used weapons of mass destruction and cultivated ties to terrorists, is no more." Behind his serene public face a distressed vice president frantically micromanaged a campaign of press leaks to discredit Wilson. Cheney even scripted talking points to aides about what to tell reporters. And he fretted about what was said on cable TV talk shows like MSNBC's "Hardball." His chief agent in this intense effort to discredit Wilson was his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, finely attuned to his principal's wishes.


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"get Gonzales down here now!":evilgrin: :evilgrin:

the outing of a Covert CIA Agent. And did so with the full knowledge of that Agents status and capacity in the CIA...If the Democratically controlled Congress turns a blind eye to this Crime they are accomplices IMO..

...or put to death as the charges warrant. This was brought out during the Clinton years, so I doubt it's changed since then.

when he lied about the WMD....

He was actually out of office when charged with treason.

While he was in office he was indicted for the murder of Alexander Hamilton.

So Bush's and Cheney's treason lives on.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

the law-

But he tries to make us believe he is.