6 yr old: At no time was I informed that there would be video surveillance of the cookie jar

[jodymarie aimee]

Kyle Griffin
Trump transition officials plan to ask Mueller to return "many tens of thousands" of transition emails, Axios reports. The transition apparently says it’s willing to provide Mueller only with vetted....

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6 yr old: At no time was I informed that there would be video surveillance of the cookie jar.

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1. i love they they think emails can simply be returned.

it goes beyond "uh, you do know i can just make a copy".

in fact, it's impossible to return emails without making a copy.

[FBaggins]

3. That's not quite true.

There isn't any evidence that Mueller's team was forwarded thousands of emails.

They may have been provided with electronic copies (perhaps on a flash drive of backup drive), or they may have been provided with paper copies. In either case, they could simply give them back.

Of course, that's not the real news (which is that he has them and says that he received them legally - and this doesn't need to return them).

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4. fair point, perhaps i'm too technical on this.

to my former techie ear, "emails" can't be "returned" without making another copy.

however, a "printout of emails" or a "flash drive containing emails" could indeed be returned without making any copies.

and i agree, the real question is whether or not they were obtained legally, though that is sounding like donnie and the gang are grasping at straws. *they* are the ones who obtain emails illegally

[Egnever]

5. We are talking thousands of emails

I would imagine this would have been a data dump from the company of all accounts related to the investigation. Much more likely they just copied the data from whatever server held them then sent a drive containing all of them.

I would be very surprised if there was any skulduggery in this. Pretty routine stuff in any investigation these days.

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6. the best part is donnie and the gang whining about their expectation of privacy regarding emails.

they openly called for hackers to commit espionage to steal hillary's emails, and they gleefully went through hacked emails from the dnc and used them in their campaign efforts.

but oh, anyone looking at *their* emails, whoa, that's an invasion of privacy!


these people have no shame at all.

[Egnever]

7. Yea the irony here is delicious.

[Ms. Toad]

2. Except that, from anything I've read, this particular 6-year old WAS informed

of the video surveillance of the cookie jar. (The disclaimer that comes with .gov emails.)