http://thehill.com/policy/national-...eam-defends-obtaining-trump-transition-emails
The original story is at Axios, and here's that link: https://www.axios.com/scoop-mueller...ds-of-trump-transition-emails-2517994590.html
If it turns out that there was something wrong with obtaining these e-mails, then the problem is with the GSA turning them over, not with Mueller requesting them.
But it doesn't seem to me if you turn over these data to a .gov that you can have any reasonable expectation of privacy and therefore invoke the 4th amendment, despite the assertion that these are TFA "private property".
The Article said:Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Sunday defended its work after a lawyer for President Trump’s 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 owner’s consent or appropriate criminal process,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, said in a statement to The Hill.
Axios reported Saturday that Mueller’s team is now in possession of tens of thousands of emails from the Trump transition team, including messages from Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, as well as other members of the transition’s 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.
The original story is at Axios, and here's that link: https://www.axios.com/scoop-mueller...ds-of-trump-transition-emails-2517994590.html
If it turns out that there was something wrong with obtaining these e-mails, then the problem is with the GSA turning them over, not with Mueller requesting them.
But it doesn't seem to me if you turn over these data to a .gov that you can have any reasonable expectation of privacy and therefore invoke the 4th amendment, despite the assertion that these are TFA "private property".