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Article: White hats vs. black hats: who's who in Washington's scandal investigations.(10 MILES SQUARE)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- May 1, 2006
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Watergate may not have been e brightest spot in American political history, but at least it generated some genuine investigative celebrities--team Woodward-Bernstein, lead counsel Sam Dash, and Democratic senator Sam Ervin, the "country lawyer" who chaired the Senate probe. Standout Republicans included Senate Watergate Committee member Lowell Weicker (who relentlessly sought out White House documents and convinced John Dean to testify) and Justice Department figures Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus (who were fired by Richard Nixon for refusing to back off of the Watergate investigation). Today, again, the capital is mired in scandal and in search of heroes--or ...