Geoff Shepard was associate director of the White House Domestic Council and served on President Richard Nixon’s Watergate defense team. He is the author of The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy Presidentand is writing a book on prosecutorial and judicial misconduct in the Watergate trials.
There were real crimes and real criminals. But newly found documents suggest a denial of due process of law to the defendants, a move that did the Constitution no favors.
