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Showing Original Post only (View all)BREAKING: Robert Mueller has obtained Trump transition emails, including sensitive emails of Jared K [View all]
BREAKING: Axios: Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained many tens of thousands of Trump transition emails, including sensitive emails of Jared Kushner, transition team sources tell Axios.
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Scoop: Mueller obtains "tens of thousands of Trump transition emails
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained many tens of thousands of Trump transition emails, including sensitive emails of Jared Kushner, transition team sources tell Axios.
*Trump officials discovered Mueller had the emails when his prosecutors used them as the basis for questions to witnesses, the sources said.
*The emails include 12 accounts, one of which contains about 7,000 emails, the sources said.
*The accounts include the team's political leadership and the foreign-policy team, the sources said.
Why it matters: The transition emails are said to include sensitive exchanges on matters that include potential appointments, gossip about the views of particular senators involved in the confirmation process, speculation about vulnerabilities of Trump nominees, strategizing about press statements, and policy planning on everything from war to taxes.
*Mueller is using the emails to confirm things, and get new leads, a transition source told me.
How it happened: The sources say Mueller obtained the emails from the General Services Administration, the government agency that hosted the transition email system, which had addresses ending in ptt.gov, for Presidential Transition Team.
Axios has asked the Special Counsels Office for comment and will update this story with the response.
*The transition sources said they were surprised about the emails because they have been in touch with Muellers team and have cooperated.
*They ask us to waive NDAs [nondisclosure agreements] and things like that, a second source said. We have never said no to anything.
The twist: The sources say that transition officials assumed that Mueller would come calling, and had sifted through the emails and separated the ones they considered privileged. But the sources said that was for naught, since Mueller has the complete cache from the dozen accounts.
Link: https://www.axios.com/scoop-mueller-obtains-tens-of-thousands-of-trump-transition-emails-2517994590.html
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BREAKING: Robert Mueller has obtained Trump transition emails, including sensitive emails of Jared K [View all]
MelissaB
Dec 2017
OP
Just like if you work at "corp", the emails going via "employee@corp.com" are corp's property
FarCenter
Dec 2017
#53
Desperately needed at this point, a compilation video of Republicans saying the word "e-mails"
L. Coyote
Dec 2017
#15
Yes, but the contempt would be a federal crime, so Trump could pardon that, too.
tableturner
Dec 2017
#65
Unless transition emails show collusion during election or something similar, not sure
Hoyt
Dec 2017
#25
Clinton's lawyers delayed release of her emails, and for good reason. Lawyers don't want potential
Hoyt
Dec 2017
#101
Yes...I also think the collusion with Russia was discussed in those emails....
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#106
The clue is in the story. Trump officials were interviewed about the email by Mueller.
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2017
#41
PLEASE. Enough with the tweets already. Were you not the one touting a huge event the other day?
Tipperary
Dec 2017
#28
This isn't just a tweet. It comes attached to a whole article which you can read. n/t
pnwmom
Dec 2017
#32
Trump officials discovered Mueller had the emails when his prosecutors used them as the basis
.99center
Dec 2017
#30
This also means that if DT's people withheld any emails from requests by Mueller
pnwmom
Dec 2017
#36
The very fact that they know who withheld emails and what they were about is a massive advantage.
herding cats
Dec 2017
#40
And they were emails that the DT people didn't realize they had, because they weren't among those
pnwmom
Dec 2017
#50
There will be discussion in emails referencing promises for endorsements, quid pro quos,
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2017
#43
I am not thinking either way. I expressed a wish for there to be such evidence.
spooky3
Dec 2017
#64
Watching Joy Reid discussing this with her panel. Mueller would not need warrant.
LiberalFighter
Dec 2017
#95
Doesn't seem to violate 4th. Government records are almost as good as public.
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2017
#71
I would say the 4th amendment does not apply when it is applied to federal govt in any form.
LiberalFighter
Dec 2017
#96
Trump team is screaming this was illegal as excuse to claim good cause to fire Mueller
wishstar
Dec 2017
#78
This is big. So what other big surprises has Mueller not shared? Not a lot of leaking going on.
MikeydaDog
Dec 2017
#105