And they, in their oh so infinite wisdom, decided that the American public didn't need to know.
How freaking Nixonian of them. They became the thing they professed to hate.
But you see, they're ALL democrats,... and getting rid of the hated Nixon was foremost in their collective minds.
It's not much of a stretch to say that Graham, Bradlee, Woodward, Bernstein and Felt ALL conspired to bring down the presidency of Richard Milhouse Nixon, knowing full well that they were dirtier than Nixon.