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...seven members of the Senate Select Committee on Campaign Activities are the permanent panelists of the country's most engrossing daytime show. But Chief Counsel Samuel Dash, Minority Counsel Fred Thompson and the unseen staff members working for them off-camera are the producers, directors, stage managers and prop men without whom the spectacle would...
...correlating testimony, investigating leads, feeding questions to the Senators before the cameras and generally keeping the hearings running along smoothly. The staff consists of 15 lawyers and 6 investigators, as well as secretaries, stenographers and messengers. Most of them were hired by and are ultimately responsible to Chief Counsel Dash, a criminal lawyer turned professor who was picked by Ervin to be chief counsel. Early on, Dash divided the committee's franchise into three main areas of investigation: the Watergate break-in and its coverup, the other dirty campaign tricks of 1972 and illegal campaign funding. Accordingly...
...time has been consumed in identifying and screening potential witnesses. Although only 20 witnesses have appeared before the committee in the televised public hearings thus far, more than 100 others have been questioned informally or under oath behind closed doors, usually in an auditorium office or in Dash's or Thompson's office. The Senators rarely sit in on these preliminary sessions, either because of the press of other Senate business or because they know that a summary of what has been learned will be distributed to them later. Dash, 48, takes the lead in such questioning, with...
...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...