Special Prosecution Force and the Sanitized Witness
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 ·
Grand Jury
The WSPF and the Five-State Dragnet for Nixon's Fixers
Kept separate from the presidential tapes, transcripts of grand juries in five states track the panic of an administration as the Watergate Special Prosecution Force squeezed its regional operatives
By Marcus Boone ·
Nixon and the July 23 Subpoena's War for the Tapes
A grand jury forced the White House to surrender recordings of a criminal cover-up, but the gap between the audio and the transcripts suggests a curated truth.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Watergate Special Prosecution Force and the Numerical Erasure of Witnesses
A financial index kept for decades tracks the individuals who testified about campaign contributions, though the names of the most sensitive targets remain hidden behind numbers.
By Miriam Adler ·
The Blocked Grand Jury Report and the Legal Theater of the Watergate Defendants
The effort to silence the House Judiciary Committee and remove a federal judge remained hidden in archival summaries, masking a coordinated campaign to stall the law for the Nixon administration.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Leon Jaworski and the Campaign Contributions Subpoenas
The Watergate Special Prosecution Force fought for access to presidential files through negotiated agreements, but while the records of their demands survive, the evidence they sought remains a void.
By Marcus Boone ·
Three Watergate Grand Juries Logged the Hours of a Political Purge
Witnesses were summoned and defendants were trapped while the US Marshal for the District of Columbia tracked every minute of the proceedings in records kept for decades
By Desmond Okafor ·
Presidential Tapes Fed to Grand Jury to Prosecute Nixon’s Circle
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 ·
Haldeman and Ehrlichman Fought Grand Juries to Shield the White House
The men who managed the West Wing fought to quash subpoenas and bury evidence, a legal war of attrition that kept the full scope of the Nixon administration's crimes hidden from the public.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman Indicted for Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice
Name files containing FBI interviews and grand jury testimony detail the effort to dismantle a conspiracy to obstruct justice that reached into the Oval Office.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Watergate Special Prosecution Force held testimony from three grand juries
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 ·