Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast




The Trump transition team may demand an investigation after tens of thousands of emails were handed to the Mueller probe without consent or warrants.

BETSY WOODRUFF
06.06.18 5:11 AM ET

At the time, it was one of the more controversial moments of Robert Mueller’s probe: Late last year, news broke that a federal agency turned over tens of thousands of private emails of Trump transition team officials to the special counsel’s team—without a warrant, and without getting the officials’ permission.

Now, according to communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the transition team is fighting back. They are threatening to call for an inspector general’s investigation of the General Services Administration (GSA), which gave the emails to Mueller, and to potentially try to have officials there sanctioned by the D.C. Bar.

The transition team also charges that the GSA is trying to cover up the involvement of controversial FBI agent Peter Strzok in the allegedly illegal seizure of their emails. A lawyer for the transition team wrote that Strzok “played a larger-than-previously known role in unlawfully seizing our client’s records.”

The dispute is over communications that members of the transition team had over phones and laptops between Election Day and the inauguration. After the inauguration, those phones and laptops—and the communications made over them—were handed off to the GSA for safekeeping. According to the transition team communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the GSA’s then-General Counsel Richard Beckler assured the transition team that it was merely housing the materials, and that any communications would be locked securely away from prying eyes.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. They don't realize who they work for...

and that all their communications belong to us.

Same as if they worked for the Trump Corp.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. So they should steal the election but we shouldn't steal their emails?

How's that working out for you?

[NewJeffCT]

3. I believe that signing up for the transition team

meant they lost their right to privacy over the communications, and each person had to sign a document stating that they understood this was the situation.

[Maine-i-acs]

4. Those communications were public

Part of the public record. Turned over legitimately.
The guy in charge of watching over them was initially a Trump toadie.
Then he left and a non-stooge took over the role. The rest is history.

[ChiTownDenny]

5. LOL.

GSA’s then-General Counsel Richard Beckler assured the transition team that it was merely housing the materials, and that any communications would be locked securely away from prying eyes.

Thank you, Deep State.

[lagomorph777]

6. Misleading headline; Strzok was no rogue and the email transfer was legit.

Strzok was transferred for political reasons due to his affair and personal political views (which are protected under the 1st Amendment, same as for every American, even a football player).

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Idiots...they should have used their own phones/emails and the like, instead of ...

using the feds' phones and equipment. There is standard language w/ such that traffic over such private networks is subject to review/etc. to prevent unauthorized use of, etc. If these guys chose to commit their crimes over this private network, then they are more stupider than we thought.

[Nitram]

8. The entire article is written from the point of view of trump's transition team.

It says "Strzok’s political opposition to Trump also concerns the transition team..." They aren't "concerned" about anything but casting phony doubt on the integrity of Muller's investigation.