Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law

The Watergate Road Map Unsealed

Benjamin Wittes
Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 12:13 PM

The National Archive has released the famed—and long mysterious—Watergate “Road Map,” which Special Prosecutor sent to Congress in 1974.

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The National Archives has released the famed—and long mysterious—Watergate “Road Map,” which Special Prosecutor sent to Congress in 1974. For background on the Road Map, and our litigation to get it released, see here and here. This only just happened, and I have not read the document yet. I’m sure that I will have things to say about it once I have had a chance to digest it, as, I suspect, will Stephen Bates and Jack Goldsmith. For now, the document itself is below; redactions, on initial inspection, seem relatively minor. And here is a trove of related material also available from the National Archive.

 

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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