Trump's aides told to preserve Russia-related materials

[spanone]

WASHINGTON -- The White House has confirmed to CBS News that White House counsel told the president’s aides to preserve emails and other materials that could be connected to various probes regarding Russian interference.

A White House official told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan that this is “simply taking proactive steps to push back against false and politically motivated attacks.”

White House lawyers instructed the president’s aides to preserve the materials on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, which cited three administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly disclose the memo from White House counsel Don McGahn.

The instructions come after Senate Democrats last week asked the White House and law enforcement agencies to keep all materials involving contacts that Trump’s administration, campaign and transition team -- or anyone acting on their behalf -- have had with Russian government officials or their associates.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-aides-told-to-preserve-russia-related-materials/

[MFM008]

1. lol

good.

[spanone]

2. the steady drip drip drip

[Lucinda]

3. This should be interesting since we know that Obama folks stashed info in safe places...

I wonder how things will match up with what the current WH has...

[C_U_L8R]

4. It's not like the old days when shredders worked overtime

Digital documents can live on forever...
on the sender's side, on the receiver, on all the cc's
and bcc' and all sorts of places from local caches
to ISP server backups. Especially as the Trumpettes
try to evade scrutiny by using private chat and
other methods that are even less 'secure'.
Plus once someone tries deleting things, that
also leaves all kinds of fingerprints of there own.
It's all to say the Trump team is screwed.

[tblue37]

7. Heck, they could probably find some Russia/Trump stuff on Anthony Weiner's laptop! nt

[Zo Zig]

5. Shouldn't the orange shitgibnon do this as well?

NT

[Docreed2003]

6. So if there was no contact with Russians, what is there to preserve??

[pansypoo53219]

8. did they remove shredders + scissors?

i would seize them now.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. This seems more relevant, all of the sudden.