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 ·
Privacy was stripped from individuals whose phone records were seized by government lawyers using data from mysterious non-public organizations—details that remained hidden for decades.
By Miriam Adler ·
The records of the ITT Task Force remained hidden for decades, shielding the specific ways the Watergate Special Prosecution Force scrubbed corporate evidence before it reached a courtroom.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Private tax records were turned into political cudgels by Nixon's covert fixers, and the records of that betrayal were siloed within a specialized prosecution unit.
By Desmond Okafor ·
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 ·
While the public focused on the high-stakes grand jury proceedings, a quiet clerical machine worked to transform a political explosion into a series of manageable, scheduled appointments.
By Miriam Adler ·
For decades, the government kept the technical blueprints of its pursuit of anti-Nixon dissidents and the 'Responsiveness Program' hidden in a series of cross-reference printouts.
By Marcus Boone ·
Private diaries and sworn lies were distilled into evidentiary abstracts by Watergate investigators, a process that filtered the truth before it reached a courtroom.
By Marcus Boone ·
The truth of the Nixon era was handed to a State Department PR office for distribution, and the gap between the evidence and the report remains a black hole in the record.
By Constance Bell ·
The recordings that broke a presidency were handed over not as a legal seizure but as a choreographed transaction, leaving gaps that still haunt the record.
By Marcus Boone ·
Referrals from unnamed agencies and corporate bribery cases were siloed in a deputy's office, separating the money men from the burglars for decades.
By Harlan Pryce ·
The process of filtering testimony from the Nixon administration remained hidden in administrative files, where the 'run sheets' survive but the names of the targets have vanished.
By Miriam Adler ·
The records track the 18 1/2 minute gap and the presidential resignation, while the state-sponsored abuse of political dissidents is pushed into a separate, related file
By Miriam Adler ·
The logistical debris of the hunt for a president was kept secret for decades, masking the gap between the government's accounting and its actual intent.
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 ·
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 ·