Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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Late last month this was from I think a Fox News report. The Trump administration officials ignited a quest to root out suspected spies from prominent U.S. media outlets. And don't you wonder how big a deal that is? How big a deal are Chinese spies or just foreign spies in general in our big media outlets including the other social media platforms plus the news? How big a deal do you think that is…

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Somebody says where's Adam Schiff? He's been kind of quiet. Isn't it weird that all of the Russia collusion stuff and whatever's going to happen with Durham and who may or may not go to jail? I have a question about that. I'm wondering about, so we're all expecting that the coronavirus is sort of keeping the regular news from coming at us as quickly as it would and so we're not really watching as much as we normally would events with the whole Steele dossier and the Russian collusion and stuff. And I was wondering what the penalty would be if anybody at a high level got convicted for trying to overthrow the President of the United States. Is there a penalty for that? And I'm just going to Google it right now. So treason would be if you levied war against your own country in this case the United States or adheres to their enemy giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere is guilty of treason and shall suffer death or shall be imprisoned not less than five years. Okay so that was the question I wanted to have an answer to because I was wondering if it's always the death penalty. Apparently it's not. It's not the death penalty necessarily. So it could be over five years. So it says not less than five years or you could be fined. But you can be fined and five years, not necessarily death. But I don't know if it would be considered treason unless our intelligence agencies were working for the benefit of an enemy. Whoever levies war against them or adheres to their enemies. So I guess enemy would be the key word here. And there's probably lots of constitutional law and stuff that I don't know about that. Or somebody's saying sedition. All right, sedition. See what the penalty for sedition is or even what it is. Not even sure I know what sedition is. So sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison. It is the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal, okay yeah it's punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison. So that would certainly fit the definition of what we believe to be true about the Steele dossier. That did look like it was, wait no, is it didn't look like it was inciting a revolt. Depends if the revolt has to be violent. Can a bloodless coup be the result of sedition? I don't know. So I guess we've got lots of questions on that. I was just wondering if it was literally possible that any of the people involved in the Steele dossier from the Russia collusion hoax, I was wondering if any of them had at least a risk of the death penalty. And I would say not. It looks like not. Apparently an internal coup against the president doesn't get you the death penalty according to our laws.

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Did you hear the hot mic moment? So there was an open mic when John Roberts of Fox News was waiting for the task force or somebody to come on and he was chatting with I guess the tech who was working the AV and they were chatting and somehow, I listened to the whole thing, and somehow people believe there's something in there that's like a new conspiracy theory because the tech guy said that they'…

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