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Watergater Hearings Counsel Sam Dash Dies
Newsday (AP) ^ | 5/29/2004 | H. JOSEF HEBERT

Posted on 05/29/2004 3:59:19 PM PDT by wjersey

WASHINGTON -- Attorney Sam Dash, whose probing questions during televised Senate hearings into the Watergate scandal made him a household name in the 1970s, died Saturday after a lengthy illness.

Dash, who had been hospitalized since January, died at the Washington Hospital Center at the age of 79, according to family members.

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1 posted on 05/29/2004 3:59:20 PM PDT by wjersey
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Sam's somehow escaped getting his fair share of the blame for 9/11 leaving it all for Senator Church.

Fact is, this guy's questioning and spinning of the answers eventually turned into an evisceration of the CIA that left us naked and helpless in the face f AlQaida intrigue.

2 posted on 05/29/2004 4:11:47 PM PDT by muawiyah
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I remember Dash showing up at the hearings on Starr's staff and feeling like the fix was in. He was an insider and I regret to say at his passing that he was not a friend of the right.


3 posted on 05/29/2004 4:12:50 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Who's that poodle?)
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He stabbed Starr in the back. The guy was an SOB.


4 posted on 05/29/2004 4:21:05 PM PDT by GulliverSwift (The only difference between the Al Gore of 2004 and 2000 is that the current one has nothing to lose)
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One less communist in the world.....


5 posted on 05/29/2004 4:44:26 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron (It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
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To: GulliverSwift

May he rest in peace, but my thought exactly. Why does the right keep reaching out to liberals? Will they ever learn?


6 posted on 05/29/2004 4:48:09 PM PDT by rushmom
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To: wjersey

Even as you read this, Sam Dash is reconsidering the wisdom of what he did during Watergate. As for me, I am satisfied that justice is finally occuring.


7 posted on 05/29/2004 5:07:54 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: Thebaddog
He was an insider and I regret to say at his passing that he was not a friend of the right.

It might also be argued that Sam had no more than a passing acquaintance with the truth...

8 posted on 05/29/2004 5:12:12 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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Dash soiled himself so badly in relation to Starr, that any possible glory was struck down. Those who prided themselves in taking down Nixon because he was dirty, courted Clinton and his cronies with reckless abandon. They were whores one and all.


9 posted on 05/29/2004 5:37:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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Islam is always waiting to exploit weakness. Watergate left a void in American politics that was filled by the peronification of weakness, Jimmy Carter. Islam exploited this weakness by launching the Islamic Revolution in Iran and setting the world on the path that lead to 9/11.

I hope those Watergaters had fun tearing down the country, because the price tag sure was high.


10 posted on 05/29/2004 6:11:50 PM PDT by bondjamesbond (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: wjersey
Cross reference:

Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dies

11 posted on 05/30/2004 3:03:24 AM PDT by leadpenny
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