Anonymous wrote:In 106 years of the espionage act, not one President has been brought up on this charge. I will use the words so eloquently said by Director Comey in 2016 about classified information on a private server; "no reasonable prosecutor would file charges"
Anonymous wrote:I'm glad someone read the article and summarized it (most like by AI... wink). What the article failed to mentjon was that the Presidential Records Act wasn't passed until 1978, ten years after this crime. However, the espionage act (passed in 1917) did exist in 1968.
In Trumps case, Smith used the PRA to raid Mar-A-Lago, yet prosecuted under the espionage act. Confusing, but still illegal according to Jack Smith but crickets...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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/
Ask Edgar Hoover and whoever the AG was at the time. It has no relevance to today.
Anonymous wrote: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/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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/
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.
Anonymous wrote: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/
Anonymous wrote: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/
Anonymous wrote: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/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is the day we will read about in history books as the day we became a banana republic.
I guess that's a step up from what we were before today.
How so. A hallmark of a banana republic is the strong man using his government to put his opponent in jail. After it works once, it’s a preferred way to choose a successor. Welcome to the new Democratic dictatoriship of America. How is cutting the voters out a good thing. And how is a ridiculous Whitehouse with naked men on the whitehouse lawn something to brag about.
Anonymous wrote:This is the day we will read about in history books as the day we became a banana republic.