For years, the legal machinery of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force focused on the men who carried out the orders while the man who gave them remained outside this specific circle of defendants.
Political enemies were watched and the public deceived by a presidency that fought the Watergate Special Prosecution Force for the tapes that could prove the crime.
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
Political operatives used to sabotage rivals and spy on citizens left a trail of memos that the Watergate Special Prosecution Force spent years cataloging in the dark.