watergate

It has become known as Greece's Watergate: spyware software and Greek intelligence targeted the mobile phones of government ministers, senior military officers, judges and journalists.

But as the full picture of Watergate unfolded, his poll numbers sank dramatically, dropping all the way to 24% on the day he left office.

Alan J. Pakula’s Watergate drama is remembered as one of the great political thrillers, but for Redford it was a gamble of conviction and clout.

But in 1974, Redford bought the film rights to All the President's Men, an account of the Watergate scandal by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - the two Washington Post reporters who uncovered it.

“The Baltimore case is reminiscent of the Watergate scandal,” the New York Times wrote.