This is a big deal.
It also reeks of the tactics of Andrew Weissmann, one of crooked Mueller's chief investigators, who has a long history of prosecutorial misconduct.
Post 61 ....: bingo
Go to the corner and face the wall Mr . Mueller.
Mueller took illegal documents.
This is beyond a mere process crime of imperfection.
Rosenstein needs to fire Mueller now. If Trump fires him he will take tremendous hits. If Rosenstein refuses, then Session’s must do it. Right? Wrong?
Isn’t weissmann the same man who was reprimanded by the SCOTUS for overstepping legal barriers. Reversed the case after he destroyed the company.
My understanding is that the Trump legal team expected a request from Mueller for these documents, and were prepared to turn them over when asked. However, during the questioning of WH personnel which took place this week, the Trump legal team discovered that Mueller was already in possession of documents, even ones that the Trump people considered privileged, and that the documents had been obtained by Mueller illegally from the GSA, on whose servers the transition teams emails had been hosted.
This is a big deal.
It looks like somebody at the GSA and/or Mueller’s office jumped the gun (to put it mildly). This will make any future criminal prosecution based on these materials problematic on 4th Amendment grounds.
Impeachment, however, is another matter. It is a purely political process. The emails can easily be illegally leaked to further that end, just like how Jack Ryan’s sealed divorce records were mysteriously leaked to torpedo Ryan’ candidacy in his race against Barack Obama for the US Senate.
It is all simply politics driven by the need to achieve the desired end by any means necessary.
That is interesting to know, and I do agree with your thoughts on this.