The unswearing was basically just an indirect preparation for the possible later betrayal, not already a betrayal itself. The same applies to Verin gathering info on the BA, DF and Forsaken with the intention to possibly betray it to the Lightside some time in the future. The BA Oath just forbids a direct betrayal, IMO.
Verin was gathering all those names, but from the start, even before she took the Dark Oath, she was focused on betraying them. However, she did not mean to do so until her last hour. So, all of the information she gathered, she did so knowing full well that she would leak it to the Lightsiders... in her final hour.
It was a direct betrayal to make those notes knowing that she would leak them, but it followed the rules, as it were.
However, I cannot see how unswearing the Dark Oath is not a direct betrayal, knowing what the BA Hunters plan to ask, and probably what they would seek to gain from further interrogation (other BA identities, plots, etc.)
The BA Hunters and their methodology (tGS spoilers)
- 19/11/2009 02:16:20 PM
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It probably has to be a direct betrayal
- 19/11/2009 02:53:19 PM
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Yup, totally.
- 19/11/2009 05:45:45 PM
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Possible reason for the loophole
- 19/11/2009 06:04:12 PM
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Re: Possible reason for the loophole
- 19/11/2009 06:36:21 PM
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Could be in that moment
- 19/11/2009 09:04:59 PM
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But the DO had Rand's mother - don't think she was a DF *NM*
- 21/11/2009 06:43:17 PM
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Could have been an illusion. We really know nothing of what happens to souls
- 24/12/2009 08:14:05 PM
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Re: It probably has to be a direct betrayal
- 19/11/2009 06:41:03 PM
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But wasn't Talene *forced* to do that?
- 19/11/2009 08:05:48 PM
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That and any oath on the Oath Rod relies very heavily on the swearer's interpretation of the oath.
- 19/11/2009 07:30:55 PM
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*NM*
*NM*
True. There's a scene where Cadsuane is told about Aiel in the city and she says "I hadn't noticed."
- 19/11/2009 08:21:52 PM
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Unless she's Black Ajah 
Just kidding.
- 19/11/2009 08:59:49 PM
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Just kidding.
- 19/11/2009 08:59:49 PM
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Maybe that's the real reason she's now taken to wearing a black hood! 
*NM*
- 19/11/2009 09:02:06 PM
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*NM*
- 19/11/2009 09:02:06 PM
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There's reason to believe that if any AS removed the Oaths from themselves, it's Cadsuane. *NM*
- 01/12/2009 04:44:00 PM
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Bigger loophole
- 21/11/2009 06:46:42 PM
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True, but again perspective seems to determine what is a lie and what isn't
- 21/11/2009 10:19:19 PM
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