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• Kristen Clarke lied to Congress under oath, the senators claim, and then manipulated a witness to conceal the felony.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 July 2024
• When asked about this under oath, Sheriff Scott took the Fifth.
  — Jerry Mitchell Rory Doyle, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Is the president prepared to say that under oath in a court of law?
  — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• But it was captured on tape and described under oath by four of his deputies.
  — Rachel Axon Rory Doyle For The New York Times, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• How did the judge really feel about Trump's 3½ hours under oath?
  — Michael R. Sisak, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2024
• How did the judge really feel about Trump’s 3½ hours under oath?
  — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
• Who knows what might be revealed when or if Lake is questioned under oath.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• It was revealed just last week that Meadows has testified under oath in that case three times since agreeing to the deal.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• Huntsman cut off the questions when the then-sheriff refused to answer under oath.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• The ruling helps clear the way for Mike Pence to speak under oath about the pressure Trump put him under to declare the 2020 election results invalid.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• Leave it to Leo to put on a show and lie under oath ... but just like the Sun, Salvadore's mere presence brought light to unspoken truths that helped crack a high-profile case.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
• Creech claimed at times, including under oath, to having killed as many as 42 people.
  — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Jan. 2024
• Trump erupts in a chaotic day of testimony, in a rare glimpse of ex-president under oath.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• The document offers no details as to what the former judge is accused of lying under oath about.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
• But even this testimony under oath did not stop the attacks on him, which spread from Fox News to public hearings in Congress.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• In recent years, Trump has been wary of answering questions under oath, given the legal intrigue swirling around him.
  — William K. Rashbaum, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Even under oath, an employee of the local company that installed the cameras, Danaide, refused to talk.
  — Karen Naundorf, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• Paylor, under oath, testified that police framed him, planting the gun.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2024
• Years later, under oath, Young said no law enforcement authorities ever asked him to take the file down.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• His ruling opens the way for the sides to begin the evidentiary exchange process, called discovery, which will allow each side to question the other under oath.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2023
• Beach said he should be allowed to question McCarthy and Boynton under oath about when their job discussions started.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• Well, a lawsuit in which he is compelled to answer questions under oath might finally settle things.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• The police then conspired to fabricate evidence and lie under oath to protect their own and frame Read, her defense alleged.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 2 July 2024
• Ware will appear before Congress in July to discuss his findings under oath.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 28 June 2023
• Testimony consists of answers under oath to the questions posed.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
• Because this chain of events will find him, possibly this week, in a place he’s spent decades trying to avoid—a courtroom, on a witness stand, under oath, answering hostile questions from smart lawyers.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• His career almost derailed in the late 1990s, when two members of Congress accused him of lying under oath while testifying about Haitian death squads.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• That left many wondering whether Paul would be forced to take the stand and answer questions under oath about his relationship and friendship with the attorney general.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Bill Clinton’s supporters will be quick to disabuse you of the notion that the 42nd president was impeached for obstructing Congress and lying under oath.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
• Even Bill Clinton’s overwrought 1998 impeachment could be explained at bumper-sticker length: The president lied under oath.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024