Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Nixon only resigned so that his vice president could pardon him. He did it to keep himself out of nick.
He shouldn't have walked, he wouldn't have needed a pardon but it was different times. The whole sorry business was clearly a huge embarrassment; unforgivable incompetence basically.

A president is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for conduct within their "exclusive sphere of constitutional authority," which includes running the intelligence agencies. Their supreme court agreed with this just last year.