One of the most gripping scandals continues to intrigue the nation, as the U.S. National Archives released a new set of documents in the Watergate Scandal.
The National Archives released nearly 850 pages of court documents in the case, including legal conversations and also evaluations of the burglars involved in the break in of the Democratic headquarters nearly four decades ago.
"One newly public transcript of an in-chambers meeting between Sirica, the U.S. District Court judge in charge of the case, and then-Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in July 1973 shows the judge revealed secret probation reports indicating that E. Howard Hunt had cited orders from officials high up in the Nixon administration. Several of Hunt's co-defendants had previously denied any White House involvement in court testimony, and Sirica told Cox and other prosecutors that he felt the new information seemed to me significant," as reported by Times Leader.
Earlier in June, The U.S. Justice Department said that it would release some of the top-secret documents of the 1972 Watergate case to the public.
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.
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