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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 1968 Lyndon Johnson gave an aide classified documents to hide from the incoming Nixon Administration.  Why wasn't he Indicted like Trump?

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/11/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-lbj/
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For those who don’t want to read the article, I’ll summarize.

LBJ found out via an informant that the Nixon campaign was allegedly circumventing US foreign policy and actively discouraging peace accords in Vietnam because they didn’t want LBJ to get credit for ending the war. LBJ had some of the alleged conspirators (US citizens) surveilled, which proved the allegations were true. However, it was obvious Nixon was going to win the election, so LBJ and his advisors decided that if the American public learned what they’d been up to, it would shake public confidence in the Nixon administration so badly that Americans were better off not knowing.

LBJ asked an aide to hold all of the documentation of the surveillance instead of giving it to the incoming Nixon administration. The aide kept it all until LBJ’s death, when he donated it to LBJ’s presidential library in a sealed envelope with instructions not to open until 50 years later, 2023. The library actually opened the envelope in the 1990s.

The article states, “What the Johnson administration had done was, in a sense, ‘legal,’ given that there were essentially no laws governing the U.S. surveillance state before reforms in the 1970s. Nevertheless, everyone involved was aware that what they’d done could be seen as scandalous.”

So no one was prosecuted because there was no specific law broken and there were no allegations of wrongdoing.[/quote]

Also no one knew about it until LBJ was dead and you can’t prosecute a dead guy. [/quote]

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