A Deeper Look at the Rise of the Deep State

Americans took a break from their partisan vituperations in February to reflect on the recently revealed testimony that Richard Nixon gave to grand jury investigators in 1975, a year after the Watergate scandal drove him from power. James Rosen, a veteran Washington journalist and biographer of Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell, revealed the episode in the New York Times. Nixon had argued that his wiretapping program was necessitated by another espionage operation carried out by top U.S. military commanders against him and his top aides.