Watergate

The burglary was the surface. Ask what the burglars were actually looking for.

Beyond the confirmed burglary-and-coverup: the file keeps the documented oddities — the burglars' CIA histories (Hunt, McCord), Baldwin's advance monitoring, the 18½-minute gap (deliberate erasure per the Advisory Panel's 1974 technical finding of 5-9 separate erasure events), Deep Throat's institutional identity (Felt, FBI #2, revealed 2005 — the exposure was itself an agency officer steering the press), and the never-settled question of what the burglars sought (theories from DNC finances to call-girl records argued in court filings, e.g., Dean v. St. Martin's litigation). The scandal is confirmed history; its purpose remains genuinely unresolved.