The records of the force meant to dismantle the Nixon cover-up remained hidden in administrative files, scrubbing the friction of the executive branch from the official story.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A lawyer's mandate to investigate a presidency left a trail of sworn testimony and stenographic tapes, but the raw input used to grill witnesses remains buried.
By Desmond Okafor ·
For years, the public saw only what the Watergate Special Prosecution Force chose to print, while the raw intelligence on illegal wiretaps remained buried in a separate vault.
By Marcus Boone ·
Richard Nixon's exit was managed by a curated trail of paperwork that protected the state's secrets while debating whether a disgraced president deserved a federal pension.
By Miriam Adler ·
The names of those who funded the Watergate break-in were buried in handwritten notes for years, while the agency that trained the burglars remained out of reach.
By Desmond Okafor ·
The men who funded the Watergate break-in were siloed away from the men who carried it out, a separation of evidence that protected the executive chain for years
By Desmond Okafor ·
Citizens fought for years to pierce the secrecy of the Nixon era, only to find their requests managed by a clerical firewall designed to curate the truth
By Marcus Boone ·
The legal cleanup of the Nixon era stayed hidden in administrative folders for decades, separating the prosecution of foot soldiers from the secret deals made with the White House.
By Marcus Boone ·
The American agent who killed a diplomat in Washington sought survival through confessions that the Justice Department waited nearly a decade to formalize
By Theo Marchetti ·
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 ·
Generations of lost wealth and political purges were masked by photo opportunities in a visual ledger tracking the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2017.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Fourth Amendment protections were at risk as officials sought to mask a system of digital predation as a surgical tool that only gathers authorized information.
By Marcus Boone ·
Martin Luther King, Jr. was watched by the same government machinery that DOJ lawyers used to shield CIA intelligence activity in Mexico City and other hidden files.
By Desmond Okafor ·