Treason?

At first I was not going to bother to reply to Timothy Thompson's glib use (letters April 22) of the word "treason." The present political turmoil is not because a particular candidate seemed to lose an election, it is because the moral fiber of America has been destroyed in two short years. The moral capital, if you will, that our country earned over 200 years is gone. How will we, can we, ever get it back? Loosely throwing that word around does not help. A dozen or two relevant events have been identified by American intelligence services, but I will point out only one: Jared Kushner's reported attempt to set up a back-channel communications system with Russia using Russian security services. This was to be totally secret from the American people and our government.

Dear reader, do you think that the word "treason" might apply to this?

--Bob Curry, Endicott