Mueller team defends obtaining Trump transition emails
Source: The Hill
Special counsel Robert Muellers office on Sunday defended its work after a lawyer for President Trumps transition team accused investigators of improperly obtaining thousands of emails from transition officials.
When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owners consent or appropriate criminal process, Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsels office, said in a statement to The Hill.
Axios reported Saturday that Muellers team is now in possession of tens of thousands of emails from the Trump transition team, including messages from Trumps son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, as well as other members of the transitions political leadership and foreign policy team.
Mueller's prosecutors reportedly used the emails to question witnesses, and are also looking to the messages to confirm information and follow new leads.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/365318-mueller-team-defends-obtaining-trump-transition-emails
C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)Through all their sworn statements, they lied their asses off ...and Mueller had the proof all along.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)and I hope that Muller set clauses to impede the man-child from making pardons on all those criminals, including himself.
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)communication devices to commit crimes, e.g., treason and money laundering.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)that says that all the documents produced on equipment from the GSA is OWNED by the GSA.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)FarPoint
(12,426 posts)Not sure...
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)They own the vehicles, equipment, etc
FarPoint
(12,426 posts)So, tRump can't control the GSA ....it's not his property....my line of thinking.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)The FBI has been gathering evidence to convict felons for a long damn time. I doubt they would do anything that could get a case thrown out of court. At least not at this level.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)It's like the ultimate put down of a spurious charge. It doesn't just say "No," it says not only "Hell No," but "here's a slapdown for your trouble."
Heheh.
mpcamb
(2,872 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,304 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)In other words, they did not rely on Putin's hackers
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)And if SCOTUS decides the e-mails were illegally obtained then any information found through the e-mails will likely be inadmissible, which will probably include Flynn's plea bargain and anything he said to Mueller.
emulatorloo
(44,164 posts)They don't have a case. They are just blowing smoke at Republicans and trying to muddy the waters. Ultimate goal, trumpet it on the Fox News Propaganda Channel for the easily manipulated base.
Mueller's a very experienced investigator and prosecutor. Highly unlikely he did anything that was 'illegal", it just isn't plausible.
As Peter Carr, spokesman for the Special Counsel's Office, said,: "When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner's consent or appropriate criminal process."
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)emulatorloo
(44,164 posts)More like history and track records.
See also
Trump charges Mueller obtained emails improperly, but legal experts challenge those claims
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029995120
"You go to the judge and complain," he said. "You don't issue a press release or go to Congress. It appears from the outside that this is part of a pattern of trying to undermine Mueller's investigation."
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Red Don is whining about the FBI legally obtaining his team's emails, when he publicly asked Russia to illegally hack Clinton's emails during the election.
Nitram
(22,845 posts)Suicidal, even.
safeinOhio
(32,713 posts)delete relavent emails?
Nitram
(22,845 posts)They can go to prison for ever, or they can rat on people higher up the food chain.