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To: af_vet_rr
You need not repeat yourself, or for that matter even state it in the first place as it was quite evident why Hillary had a private server in which she illegally communicated government business to avoid FOIA requests.

However, you apparently do not understand that a private entity setup to facilitate the transfer of powers between outgoing & incoming administrations are not using government issued equipment. They are not part of the government, thus their emails are not something GSA has authority to turn over to anybody. It is the property of the transition team, period.

46 posted on 12/17/2017 5:42:06 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
They are not part of the government, thus their emails are not something GSA has authority to turn over to anybody. It is the property of the transition team, period.

Darn tootin !

47 posted on 12/17/2017 5:48:18 PM PST by timestax
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To: Robert DeLong
However, you apparently do not understand that a private entity setup to facilitate the transfer of powers between outgoing & incoming administrations are not using government issued equipment. They are not part of the government, thus their emails are not something GSA has authority to turn over to anybody. It is the property of the transition team, period.

They were using a .gov, or rather a ptt.gov, domain for their emails, which means their emails were passing through government servers, which is why the GSA had the emails to turn over.

I'm not saying it's right, but when a third party is involved, in this case government email servers, regardless of what promises were made or what regulations exist, the expectation of privacy has been compromised.

The more surprising thing is that Trump's people weren't encrypting their emails. Had they been encrypting, then all the GSA would have is a bunch of useless characters jumbled together.

If they weren't encrypting their emails, that stuff could have been intercepted by interested third parties. Hopefully they were at least using VPNs to connect to those government email servers.
57 posted on 12/19/2017 11:52:03 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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