The special prosecutor mechanism, intended as a safeguard against executive corruption since the Watergate era, has turned ...

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Reporters leapt at the chance to use a third-rate burglary to drive Nixon from office. Obamagate elicits no such urgency.

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I guess it’s no surprise that the Justice Department decided that Jeffrey Epstein had not blackmailed prominent individuals.

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Congress built a system 50 years ago to prevent another Nixon. Trump seems determined to dismantle those rules.

Secret meetings. A mysterious informant. And a cover-up that reached the highest levels of U.S. government. This is the full story of how Watergate ended a presidency.