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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump transition team were informed re: communications.. "no expectation of privacy can be assumed"
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Here are the money quotes that destroy the Trump legal teams claims ...
In a phone interview with BuzzFeed News on Saturday night, Loewentritt whose LinkedIn represents that he has worked at the agency since 1972 disputed the claims made in the letter sent by the Trump campaign.
"Beckler never made that commitment," he said of the claim that any requests for transition records would be routed to the Trump campaign's counsel.
Specifically, Loewentritt said, "in using our devices," transition team members were informed that materials "would not be held back in any law enforcement" actions.
Loewentritt read to BuzzFeed News a series of agreements that anyone had to agree to when using GSA materials during the transition, including that there could be monitoring and auditing of devices and that, "Therefore, no expectation of privacy can be assumed."
Loewentritt told BuzzFeed News that the GSA initially "suggested a warrant or subpoena" for the materials, but that the Special Counsel's Office determined the letter route was sufficient.
As to whether the Trump campaign should have been informed of the request, Loewentritt said, "That's between the Special Counsel and the transition team."
Asked about Langhofer's letter and Loewentritt's statements and after publication of this story a spokesperson for the Special Counsel's Office, Peter Carr, told BuzzFeed News, When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owners consent or appropriate criminal process.
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Trump transition team were informed re: communications.. "no expectation of privacy can be assumed" (Original Post)
KelleyKramer
Dec 2017
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Its the whole "Trump thinks he's above the law", his minions think they are too.
sunonmars
Dec 2017
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LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)1. Haha. They forgot to read the fine print.
Everyone with a brain knows that work products on the job are not private. Again they showed how arrogant and stupid they are.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)2. Its the whole "Trump thinks he's above the law", his minions think they are too.
They are about to find out they are not.
lindysalsagal
(20,721 posts)3. Ummmm, duh? Yer, like, government servents, now, ya know????
If his "staff" are too stoopid to catch on that they are not a private corporation, then, too bad for them.
It's the effing gang that couldn't shoot straight. None of the mess they've made surprises me in the least.