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Theyve had them since summer, Trumps lawyers became aware this week.
The part about Mueller getting them when GSA lawyer was in hospital, is very interesting.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/16/mueller-trump-transition-emails-lawyer-299577
triron
(21,916 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)He died in September
https://www.gsa.gov/node/84191
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Trump lawyer was reassured by Trump appointed GSA lawyer that nothing would be released without being reviewed. Then GSA lawyer gets sick and while in hospital, Mueller team goes twice to GSA and career people let them have them. Shrewd.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)How convenient for them that the official is dead and can't dispute the claim.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Takket
(21,425 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)I seriously doubt there is anything here to taint the [Mueller] investigation," said William Jeffress, a white-collar defense attorney who represented Vice President Dick Cheneys senior aide, I. Lewis Scooter Libby, during the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. Jeffress added the letter included no evidence to prove any privileged information had been obtained by Mueller's team and that even if it were, there are procedures for retrieving them.