Washington - The U.S. Justice Department said that it would release some of the top-secret documents of the 1972 Watergate case to the public as reported by the Associated Press Saturday.
When Luke Nichter of Texas A&M University-Central Texas in Killen in Texas requested some sealed documents of the Watergate burglary scandal, the Justice Department responded saying that they would divulge at least part of the secret documents to the public.
In a statement Justice Attorney, Elizabeth Shapiro, said "Forty years after the break-in at the Democratic National Committee that began the chapter of U.S. history known as Watergate, no good reason exists to keep sealed many of the judicial records created during the trial of the Watergate burglars," as reported by the Associated Press.
However, Shapiro says that documents regarding personal information and jury information will remain sealed for security issues.
Nichter archives secret recordings made by President Nixon in the Whitehouse for a website of the university in Texas. Nitcher seemed surprise that the department would even respond to his request, telling the Associated Press ""I'm obviously going to get something, but I don't know what that something is."
The Watergate case is one of the most significant and best-known cases in American history. The Watergate scandal was the name given to the 1972 burglary in the National Democratic Committee and eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon.
