watergate

The Justice Department has been largely separated from White House influence since Watergate.

While not etched in law, political tradition in this country since Watergate has been for the Justice Department to operate independently of the White House.

Since the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, the Justice Department has sought to separate law enforcement from politics, and keep the White House at a distance.

Watergate originally sprang from Nixon’s vendetta against Daniel Ellsberg, whom he was determined to embarrass for exposing the Pentagon Papers.

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