The government collected diaries, financial records, and tape transcripts to convict Nixon's chief lieutenant, but a significant portion of that evidence was never introduced in court.
White House fixers targeted whistleblowers and broke the law to protect a presidency, leaving behind a trail of redacted reports and records of evidence they tried to burn.
A internal power struggle over who controlled U.S. climate diplomacy stayed hidden for decades, pitting an ambitious outsider against the agency tasked with saving the planet
White House aides and operatives faced a special counsel's scrutiny in files that track evidence, witness statements, and the limits of executive privilege.
Privacy and civil liberties were left undefined in a 2000 effort to coordinate cyber defense as the government tracked Trojan intrusions and attacks during a Middle East conflict.
Legal barriers and human factors left US systems vulnerable at the turn of the millennium, though the specific solutions proposed to the President in May 2000 remain missing.