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THE RESOLUTION of the Richard Helms case has furnished new evidence that the "national security" red herring is alive and well in the corridors of Washington these days, the moral of the Watergate parable notwithstanding. Allowing the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director to plead nolo contendre to two misdemeanor...
One noted columnist in The New York Times applauded the backroom resolution of the Helms case, trumpeting the Carter administration line that the no contest plea at once placed on the record the former CIA chief's criminality and also protected national security secrets from disclosure in an open federal...
PERHAPS THE STRONGEST argument advanced against a Helms trial drew heavily on the complications resulting from efforts by Helms' counsel to subpoena sensitive national security documents to use in the courtroom proceedings, a move that might have forced prosecutors to dismiss the case in midtrial. This contention, however, does not...
The critical right of Congress to exercise meaningful oversight of the nation's intelligence community has sustained a serious--albeit hardly fatal--blow in the wake of the administration's decision on Helms, and only a very tenuous silver lining could be discerned as the air cleared in Washington. As...
THE ONGOING PROBE of possible perjury committed by two International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) executives--chief executive Harold S. Geneen and senior vice president Edward J. Gerrity--still awaits action by Justice, and a complete account by Helms as government witness rather than defendant might yet salvage a bit...