For years, the targets of seventeen "national security" wiretaps remained nameless; the administrative logs of the Deputy Attorney General show how the government fought to keep the records out of reach.
By Marcus Boone ·
Seventeen journalists and government officials had their lives intercepted by the state, while the records of that theft vanished from the FBI and reappeared in a White House aide's files.
By Marcus Boone ·
Newsmen and government officials had their privacy stripped by a covert White House unit, but the records of those wiretaps remained under the control of the very men who carried them out.
By Miriam Adler ·
The trial that broke Richard Nixon's presidency left a trail of "consent orders" and stipulations designed to shield the intelligence agencies that wired the press.
By Miriam Adler ·
Government officials and journalists had their phones tapped by Nixon's fixers, only for the investigation's records to be stored by the very unit that conducted the spying.
By Miriam Adler ·