“The main parallels I see between the Watergate indictments and the ones now is that it gives investigators leverage to find out all sorts of details that would otherwise be hard to observe,” said UC Irvine political scientist Matthew Beckmann. “In Watergate, indictments got investigators past the spin to discover the underlying crimes.

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