Case study on Iran Contra
... answered to a joint committee of Senate Armed services and Senate Appropriations, but any divulgence of information outside this committee would be against his oath. The Foreign Relations committee’s argument was that he had previously discussed matters of confidential CIA operations before the committee. Also, Senator Church’s attacks on Helms as chair of the subcommittee on Multinational Corporations were seen as out of Church’s jurisdiction. Helms said that he would have answered the questions if he had gone before the chairman of the joint subcommittee, but as he did not, he decided not to divulge information to protect operations in Chile. The Justice Department made a deal with Helms that did not pass by the court’s approval. Helms was instead sentenced to jail, which was suspended to unsupervised probation and fined two thousand dollars. 3) No, I do not believe that it is okay for the U.S. to overthrow a constitutionally elected government in another country. The people in that country have spoken by voting their conscience. It is not up to the U.S. to tell them whether their decision is right or wrong. We must stand back from the si...