This event was the cause for the creation of the Ervin Committee.
This event was the cause for the creation of the Ervin Committee. During this event, security guard Frank Willis discovered that several door latches had been taped down before he got to work. Later that night, Bernard Barker and Frank Sturgis, among three others, were charged with attempted burglary linked to this event. Woodward and Bernstein were reporters investigating this debacle, and The Saturday Night Massacre was the result of this event.  Deep Throat was the main source of information in what political scandal where, for 10 points, Richard Nixon ordered the bugging of the Democratic Party headquarters.
This event was the cause for the creation of the Ervin Committee.
Watergate Scandal