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The Sentence Guidelines for Seditious Conspiracy
The top crime that six of the eight are convicted of is seditious conspiracy. Seditious conspiracy has several different clauses, and one of those clauses is levying war against the United States. The government felt that they were not going to attempt to say this was tantamount to waging war against the U.S., so they ended up not using treason as the analogous offense.