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Trump officials demand Mueller return thousands of emails
Axios ^ | December 17, 2017 | Mike Allen

Posted on 12/17/2017 9:21:59 AM PST by yoe

Officials of President Trump's transition team plan to ask Special Counsel Robert Mueller to return "many tens of thousands" of transition emails they contend were unlawfully provided to him. But the prosecutor's office says emails being used in the investigation were properly obtained.

What's new: A source close to Trump's transition, which still exists as a legal entity so it can shut down what was once a 1,000-person operation, said the transition will send a letter to Mueller informing him that some of the emails are privileged, and asking for their return. The transition says it is willing to provide Mueller with vetted emails.

[snip] What's at stake: We're told that the fight involves emails from the accounts of 12 officials, including members of the political leadership and foreign-policy team. One of the accounts alone includes 7,000 emails.

Trump officials discovered Mueller had the emails when his prosecutors used them as the basis for questions to witnesses, the sources said.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; jamescomey; muellerinvestigation; muelleroutofcontrol; peterstrzok; robertmueller; trumptransition; trumptransitionemail
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This cabal made up of American institutions heretofore rarely challenged i.e. the FBI and CIA and other powerful political figures...all illegal! This is what happens when the United States Constitution is thrown under the buss and tyrants take over the rule of law.

Not all liberals are aware they are being used as pawns in a war over freedom, liberty and our Constitution.

1 posted on 12/17/2017 9:21:59 AM PST by yoe
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Did he get them in the first place? Somebody had to hand them over. Who?


2 posted on 12/17/2017 9:25:00 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: yoe

“Not all liberals are aware................”

It’s called “ignorance”, which makes up the vast majority of the liberal psyche.


3 posted on 12/17/2017 9:25:21 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to say what truth is.)
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To: yoe

Whistleblowers Line Up To Accuse Mueller Of Lying To The Senate, Surveilling Trump

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/whistleblowers-line-accuse-mueller-lying-senate-surveilling-trump/


4 posted on 12/17/2017 9:28:11 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: yoe

What a totally wimpy move.

THose in the GSA and Mueller and his team ought all be going to jail, not “giving back” emails they illegally acquired months ago.


5 posted on 12/17/2017 9:32:24 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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Why dont these people already have their own emails?
Who is stupid enough to build up 7,000 emails in a transition account?
Carrier pigeon needs to come back as a means of communication.
Or how about face to face meetimgs?
Now that everyone knows that our government is spying on us

Russia Russia Russia
There ya go- Merry Christmas NSA
Weak


6 posted on 12/17/2017 9:33:06 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: MNDude

Obama-plant permanent staff in the GSA.


7 posted on 12/17/2017 9:34:04 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: yoe

The emails will be returned. First three judges have to order same. then Mueller’s Team has to review and redact. In about 15 years Trump will get the stolen emails back. /s


8 posted on 12/17/2017 9:34:25 AM PST by DrDude (Why allow Hillary to continue to breath!)
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“Somebody had to hand them over. Who?”

Career staffers at Obama’s General Services Administration (GSA)... “Peter Carr, spokesman for the Special Counsel’s Office, told Axios early this morning: ‘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.’”

My guess is they got at least some or, more likely, most of the e-mails via “appropriate criminal process.” FNC reported this morning that Muller got them via letter of request to the GSA.

It’s too soon to know how big a deal this is. My sense is it will only become a big deal if this evidence leads to the prosecution of someone(s).


9 posted on 12/17/2017 9:34:51 AM PST by be-baw
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please, they've prolly been forwarded to the point they are on personal home drives by now...
10 posted on 12/17/2017 9:35:15 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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I’ m Sure they will return them ...right after they make copies


11 posted on 12/17/2017 9:35:42 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: yoe

“Return” probably isn’t the right word, unless they are all hard copies.


12 posted on 12/17/2017 9:36:01 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MNDude

The GSA.


13 posted on 12/17/2017 9:36:45 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Chode

Exactly.


14 posted on 12/17/2017 9:37:07 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: yoe

Makes you wonder why these government investigators couldn’t seize all of Hillary’s emails?


15 posted on 12/17/2017 9:38:16 AM PST by BradtotheBone (When I die I want the GOP to be my Pallbearers, so they can let me down one last time.)
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The concept of ‘returning’ emails is asinine, given that they are not physical properties unless they have been printed. You don’t ‘steal’ emails — you obtain copies, and unless you specifically delete them from the original recipients account or server, they’re still there.


16 posted on 12/17/2017 9:40:04 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
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To: 9YearLurker

Part of the Cabal to overthrow a duly elected President....all should see jail time....funded in part by Soros and Clintons...whatever the pay was/is will never be enough for any one who sold out their country to tyrants.

17 posted on 12/17/2017 9:41:56 AM PST by yoe
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To: Hotlanta Mike

I have more faith in Big League Politics than I in do Axios/Mike Allen.


18 posted on 12/17/2017 9:42:31 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: yoe

This is how dictators rise to power. One side way over plays it’s hand so the other side takes complete power to stop them.


19 posted on 12/17/2017 9:54:55 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: yoe

Looks like Mueller can be charged with obstruction of justice charges should be made on Monday.


20 posted on 12/17/2017 9:55:15 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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