The piece argued, and to a degree demonstrated, that there was, indeed, in Watergate a form of "treason," as contemplated in the constitutional phrase "Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors"—that it had to do with the China Lobby, the war in Vietnam, and foreign campaign contributions. By the time the piece appeared, in The Atlantic Monthly (then still under the editorship of Robert Manning and Michael Janeway), I was in law school.
