I wouldn't presume that you would consider otherwise, that being your chosen profession. Laws require fine observance of technicality which I appreciate and support in regards to all things legal.

And as you accurately suggest, Mr Franks was not in a court of law nor was he udner oath. So technically he was safe. I would suggest that the Congress would operate more effectively if the folks in it spent less time dancing about with technicalities except when they are writing laws. And when writing laws, over-reliance on technicalities can result in voluminous laws that are highly ambiguous, like the tax code, which leads us to even more foolishness and law suits, churning the legal business nicely without significant benefit to taxpayers.