Letters to the Editor
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Oh dear
What constitutes "treason" is specifically spelled out in the US Constitution (it's the ONLY crime defined in the document because the framers intended it to be extremely difficult to convict a person of treason in this country).
The US Constitution says:
"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."
(Article III, Section 3)
I suppose DeLay may have an extremely skewed idea of what "aid and comfort" means. But we know that his interpretation of the phrase, whatever it is, is wrong because we can read and understand the English language.