Kerry and the PRG

Look at Jim Geraghty's Kerry Spot entry on Kerry's meeting with reps of the PRG (Vietnamese Commies) in 1970 (the WaPost article he quotes says 1971 but Captain Ed has the correction in his post that links the article).

The real issue is that Kerry violated US law by meeting with the PRG. His actions did not skirt the "'borderline' of what was permissible under U.S. law" as his campaign claimed; instead they broke this law (18 USC 953), which has been on the books since 1948:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who,
without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly
commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any
foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to
influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of
any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or
controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of
the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than three years, or both.

That "intercourse with any foreign government" etc. with intent to "influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States" is exactly what Kerry engaged in when he met with the VC and PRG in 1970.

In other words, his actions were traitorous.