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LEGAL ANALYSIS: Why Mueller’s Seizure of Transition Emails Likely Violated the Law
Law & Crime ^ | December 18th, 2017 | Robert Barnes

Posted on 12/18/2017 7:11:56 PM PST by Gideon7

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Robert Barnes is a trial attorney in California whose practice focuses on Constitutional, criminal and civil rights law.
1 posted on 12/18/2017 7:11:56 PM PST by Gideon7
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To: Gideon7

This is the “Insurance Policy” Coup d’Etat.

Why would Mueller and his minions care about legalities?


2 posted on 12/18/2017 7:14:15 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Gideon7

Didn’t read volume of stuff here when it means nothing. Nothing Mueller does can or will be stopped. Only President Trump can stop him and the President will not. So much for law and order.


3 posted on 12/18/2017 7:16:02 PM PST by Logical me
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To: Gideon7

are the alleged violations actionable?

which if any court has jurisdiction?

who if anyone has standing?

what is/are the remedy/remedies?


4 posted on 12/18/2017 7:17:40 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Gideon7

are the alleged violations actionable?

which if any court has jurisdiction?

who if anyone has standing?

what is/are the remedy/remedies?

does the separation of powers apply in any manner?


5 posted on 12/18/2017 7:18:22 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Gideon7

Why did muellers response to these questions reference a criminal investigation?

Muh Russia is a counter intelligence op.

So, was it weasel words used to attempt to turn away criticism or is there an unknown criminal investigation?


6 posted on 12/18/2017 7:18:30 PM PST by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning...)
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To: Logical me

Mueller will self destruct, watch.


7 posted on 12/18/2017 7:21:12 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Gideon7

how about filing a writ of mandamus to cease and desist the investigation and/or its funding, by members of congress?


8 posted on 12/18/2017 7:21:35 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Gideon7

how about filing a writ of mandamus to cease and desist the investigation and/or its funding, by members of congress?


9 posted on 12/18/2017 7:21:38 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Gideon7

Would this not be akin Google handing EVERY e-mail EVER sent over gmail to the federal government? “You used Google, so you gave us Google all of your privacy rights?”


10 posted on 12/18/2017 7:22:06 PM PST by dangus
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To: Gideon7

still acting above the law.

I bet he’s trying to find out how much Trump knee about their illegal activities more than anything.


11 posted on 12/18/2017 7:22:26 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: BenLurkin

Muelller Omar was in retirement, and was brought back, when his career was over, for one final kamikaze mission for the deep state.


12 posted on 12/18/2017 7:26:28 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Gideon7

Wouldn’t the material Mueller uncovers be subject to judicial review, to the laws of governing the collection of evidence, seizure of personal papers and correspondence, and so forth?

Or is Mueller going to be serve as judge, as well as prosecutor, and chief of detectives?


13 posted on 12/18/2017 7:28:51 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: PGR88

Jon Turley wrote this this AM, is Mueller trying to get a new law passed since the ownership is so vague?


14 posted on 12/18/2017 7:29:02 PM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: Logical me

Trump gains nothing by firing Mueller except the MSM screaming from the roof tops that Mueller was getting close to finding he colluded with Russia (which incidentally is not a crime in US).

Trump knows he had no contacts with Russian operatives, and therefore no need to fire Mueller. At the end of day, the POTUS can pardon Flynn, Manafort, and others found guilty of crimes TOTALLY UNRELATED TO RUSSIA COLLUSION by the Trump campaign.


15 posted on 12/18/2017 7:32:23 PM PST by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years is the REAL cheap labor express!)
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To: Gideon7
a mass seizure...cannot conform to either Fourth Amendment standards or attorney-client privilege protections.

Yes, but it conforms to Democrat and MSM standards which means he'll probably get away with it.

16 posted on 12/18/2017 7:33:36 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Gideon7; BenLurkin

The “point of view” of the so-called professional government executives (one of whom in this case was the causative agent for the release of the emails— and quite probably a partisan democrat permanent bureaucrat type) is in this article in Government Executive.

The Trump appointee Director of the GSA died in September of cancer. He was in agreement with Trump that these records were not subject to public release or subpoenaed. And it’s clear that Mueller’s liberal peeps pounced on their compadre and had help getting the previously unavailable emails. The 2nd in command took a 180 degree view of their “private” nature. This is some dirty crap, and smells like Andrew Weissman type crapola.

It’s worth a read for the “legal” opinions expressed by trite little twits who state that “if you use a government server email that ends in ptt.gov, you have no expectation of privacy”!!!! So THAT’s why hitlery was OK to have a non-accountable criminal server, and other devices memories which were allowed to be wiped and destroyed, by the same FBI who exonerated her, thanks to the work of Strozk et. al. This needs to be blasted from the highest mountains. The National Archives does not hold that transition emails are federal records. Maybe Trump should have set up a private server for the transition— but I’d be willing to bet the corrupt FBI would have flayed him alive for erasing that content.

Here: http://www.govexec.com/management/2017/12/legal-specialists-defend-gsas-handover-transition-emails-mueller-probe/144659/?oref=skybox


17 posted on 12/18/2017 7:34:33 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Gideon7; BenLurkin

Might also say that if any of these emails were used to “put the final nail on Flynn’s coffin” then Flynn’s plea could be easily said to be “forced” and fake. Flynn did nothing wrong, except lying to Pence (or so it was said— that still makes zero sense). A basis for a Trump pardon... not for something that was committed but which was driven by economic destruction to plead out for something ultimately Flynn was doing as instructed.

Mueller is way out of his depths and his focus from Rosenstein’s directive. This could provide the basis to wrap up the investigation and shut it down, imho.


18 posted on 12/18/2017 7:38:42 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: John S Mosby

God please let CINC have a rabbit to pull out of his hat on this one. This renders his ‘sad’ statement about this in a new light....


19 posted on 12/18/2017 7:39:44 PM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: PGR88

Am of the opinion that Mueller’s carrying of a sample of uranium to Russia, under the direction of obamaumao— is key to the entire unraveling. The dude is working in concert with the rest of the rotten players he chose to save his own arse. Desperation will yield stupid results outside the scope. The goal also is to perpetuate the now idiotic “russian” myth, with any scraps that can be publicly released.

But.. not the massive security breach that was hitlery’s secret servers... and the adjoining Arwan IT workers for the DNC (and Debbie Wasserman Shulz, and the rest of the criminal RIOC DNC cabal inside the Swamp).


20 posted on 12/18/2017 7:43:19 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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