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I Page 13 WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1976 Fanel questions newsman ll Committee seeks news leak (Continued from Page 1) of the Press, which was acting on Schorr’s behalf to get the report published. He said he had “absolutely no knowledge” of Schorr’s source and said he did not inquire about the source’s identity. The Ethics Committee has spent around $150,000 trying to track down Schorr’s source. Schorr said it was a matter of professional conscience as well as his constitutional rights guaranteeing freedom of the press not to help the committee discover his source. “Even if our legal position were not as strong as it is, I could still not tell you my source,” Schorr said. “For me, it is a per sonal matter, almost a visceral matter. “For some of us — doctors, lawyers, clergymen and journalists — it is an article of faith that we must keep confidential those matters entrusted to us only because of the assurances that they would remain confidential,” he said. “For a journalist, the most crucial kind of confidence is the identity of a source of information,” Schorr said. “To betray a confidential source would mean to dry up many future sources for many future re porters. The reporter and the news organi zation would be the immediate losers. The ultimate losers would be the American people and their free institutions.” Three other writers and editors were subpoenaed along with Schorr to appear before the Ethics Committee. The three, all connected with the publication of the report in the Village Voice, are Clay S. Felker, Aaron Latham and Sally Zalaznick. Ethics Committee Chairman John J. Flynt, D-Ga., and Rep. Charles Bennett, D-Fla., have said they think they know who leaked the report to Schorr but they haven’t been able to prove it. The committee’s last-ditch attempt to obtain that proof came Tuesday with nine- and-a-half hours of closed door questioning of four former staffers of the new defunct intelligence committee. An Ethics Committee source said one target was Robert Brauer, an aide to Rep. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., and the com mittee had hoped that the other three ex staffers would implicate him. However, this plan apparently did not work and Brauer repeated for the committee his ear lier sworn denial that he gave the report to Schorr or knew who did. Schorr obtained his copy of the report after the House intelligence committee had voted to publish it but before the full House reversed the panel and ordered it kept secret. Schorr subsequently gave his copy to the Village Voice. Meanwhile, more than 5,000 journalists signed petitions circulated by the The Newspaper Guild urging the Ethics Com mittee to drop its investigation of Schorr, saying this was endangering the constitu tional rights of a free press. Thirty-five members of Congress also sent a letter to Flynt asking that the Schorr subpoena be dropped. Flynt refused to comment Tuesday either about the letter from his colleagues or the petitions from the journalists, which were personally de livered by the president of The Newspaper Guild, Charles Perlik. 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