A July 1973 subpoena dragged the Nixon administration's private recordings into the light, where prosecutors spent months marking up the evidence of a conspiracy.
By Marcus Boone ·
The inner circle of the Nixon White House faced a trial while the government handled files on electronic surveillance that remained buried in task force archives.
By Marcus Boone ·
Presidential conversations were scrubbed into final transcripts to prosecute those who managed a conspiracy of silence and political sabotage.
By Miriam Adler ·
John Mitchell and his associates attempted to bury the Watergate break-in under a mountain of lies, but the Watergate Task Force kept the tapes and transcripts to prove the perjury.
By Marcus Boone ·
These records, maintained by the Watergate Task Force, track the subpoenas and testimony used to pierce a presidential cover-up.
By Marcus Boone ·
John Mitchell and six others spent years burying the truth about a criminal conspiracy before they were finally named in a federal indictment.
By Marcus Boone ·
A president’s own voice became the evidence used to indict his inner circle for conspiracy, though the full scope of the obstruction remained hidden for years.
By Miriam Adler ·
Ordinary citizens had their personalities scrutinized by government lawyers in a high-stakes effort to secure convictions against those who lied to hide a presidential crime.
By Marcus Boone ·
Presidential secrets were guarded by claims of constitutional privilege while investigators scrambled for the legal precedent needed to force a sitting president to obey the law.
By Marcus Boone ·
Prisoners of war were subjected to strict labor policies and civilians faced monitoring for "domestic disturbances" in records that catalog the Army's grip on the Northeast.
By Miriam Adler ·
Axis spies and local collaborators were hunted through clandestine radio nets and intercepted cables in a surveillance dragnet that spanned the Caribbean and South America.
By Miriam Adler ·
Thousands of New Englanders fell under the gaze of military intelligence divisions during World War II, their movements and loyalties cataloged in files now held in Washington.
By Marcus Boone ·
Private conversations captured without consent between 1971 and 1973 were sorted by prosecutors seeking crimes beyond the Watergate break-in, though many names remain in the dark.
By Miriam Adler ·
Private communications were snatched from the air and analyzed by federal agents to map out enemy organizations, a process that left target nations blind to the intrusion.
By Miriam Adler ·
Witnesses risked their livelihoods and freedom to testify against a sitting president, their words captured in transcripts once held by the Deputy Special Prosecutor.
By Marcus Boone ·
Informants and subjects of investigation were reduced to "problem areas" in files maintained by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence.
By Miriam Adler ·