Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prehearing questioning, Democrat Dash goes after the main threads of the conspiracy in classic prosecutor's fashion. Republican Thompson frequently explores lines of defense for the Administration. For a time, Thompson pursued the theory that one or more of the Watergate conspirators had been a double agent working for the Democrats-until he realized that the theory did not hold...
When each closed-door interrogation is over, Dash works up his own summary of the witness's testimony for the guidance of committee members. In addition, he occasionally prepares memos giving biographical information, summaries of past statements and suggested questions. Thompson sometimes does his own résumés of prehearing testimony for the Republicans on the committee; these are then distributed to all members. But the Senators follow very much their own leads once the cameras start to roll. Aside from a planned order of questioning, usually based on seniority, there is almost no coordination between them...
...leaks from the hearings, the committee staff has maintained impressive security. Scrap paper is shredded, typewriter ribbons are cut up, tapes are locked away for the night. Until three weeks ago, when all but one of the documents in the Dean collection were declassified by the committee, only Dash, Thompson and the seven Senators on the Ervin committee were allowed access to them, and they had to read the papers in the presence of a guard, who ensured that they took no notes...
...occasionally disappointed with the way a witness is questioned, and often make suggestions of their own, they all must finally defer to the Senators. Staff work is demanding. Senior lawyers interview prospective witnesses, and junior lawyers help out with such questioning when they are not doubling as investigators. Dash, Thompson and Deputy Counsel Rufus Edmisten, who doubles as Ervin's right-hand man on the staff, spend little time on the Washington social scene but find wherever they go that people are full of questions-which they must nearly always refuse to answer. Ervin has imposed no hard...
With the hearings now in their most crucial phase, the Ervin committee-set up by unanimous Senate vote last February-shows every sign of bursting its seams. Three weeks ago the Senate doubled the committee's budget to $1,000,000, and Dash has already said that its deadline of Feb. 28, 1974, may have to be extended...