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...House Ethics Committee investigating the leak that he would "not give any testimony about the source." Nevertheless, the panel issued a subpoena requiring the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) correspondent to testify and face contempt of Congress charges if he refused either to appear or to answer question under oath...
...Salvador Allende Gossens. Once on the witness stand, there was no telling how many intelligence secrets a desperate Richard Helms might cough up to save his own neck. Conversely, Justice officials and, in particular, the Carter administration acknowledged the need to hold Helms accountable for his transgressions while under oath; the post-Watergate ethos and Carter's own promises for an "open Administration" still pervade Washington...
Helms stood on very shaky legal ground as well. The oath he took as CIA director to protect the nation's intelligence secrets did not even begin to excuse his perjury before Congress. He need only have declined to testify on matters involving a conflict of these two oaths when he appeared on Capitol Hill; instead, Helms consciously chose to deceive the senators...
While objecting to the "loyalty oath" aspects of running with the slate, he stresses that ideologically he differs little from his former CC cohorts, having parted with them on less than a dozen votes in two years on the Council...
...called Fëanor to them and asked him to give up his Silmarils so that there might be light. But Fëanor would not. At that moment Morgoth attacked Fëanor's distant castle and took the jewels. And Fëanor swore a terrible oath that he would lead his Elvish people to Middle-earth and recapture the Silmarils or die in the attempt...