Robert Mueller investigating whether Mike Flynn tried to obtain Clinton's 33,000 emails from Russia: Report

[Right_in_Virginia]

Robert Mueller investigating whether Mike Flynn tried to obtain Clinton's 33,000 emails from Russia: Report
Washington Examiner, Aug 25, 2017, Anna Giaritelli

Special counsel Robert Mueller's probe is investigating any possible role President Trump's former national security adviser Mike Flynn may have played in a plan to snag Hillary Clinton's lost emails from Russian hackers, according to a report published Friday.

Longtime Republican activist Peter Smith led the effort to find the hackers he believed may have stolen the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee's thousands of emails from her days as secretary of state.

Communications and documents indicate Smith believed Flynn was an ally on that initiative, according to the Wall Street Journal. Federal investigators are looking into whether Flynn secretly coordinated with Russia to obtain any of the 33,000 emails Clinton destroyed after it was revealed she had used an unauthorized private email server while in the State Department.


More: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/robert-mueller-investigating-whether-mike-flynn-tried-to-obtain-clintons-33000-emails-from-russia-report/article/2632621

[Right_in_Virginia]

How about investigating the woman who "lost" the 33,000 emails containing classified information?

[kevindavis007]

How about investigating the woman who "lost" the 33,000 emails containing classified information?

Maybe Sessions should ask for a special counsel to investigate Hillary.

[Oceander]

Maybe Sessions should ask for a special counsel to investigate Hillary.

And break Trump's promise to leave her alone?

[The_Reader_David]

How about investigating the woman who "lost" the 33,000 emails containing classified information?

What's to investigate?  All that's needed is the will to draw up an indictment on the basis of the plain meaning of the statute governing the handling of classified information, which explicitly criminalizes negligent handling, but was set aside by Comey under a bogus application of mens rea. 

[kevindavis007]

What's to investigate?  All that's needed is the will to draw up an indictment on the basis of the plain meaning of the statute governing the handling of classified information, which explicitly criminalizes negligent handling, but was set aside by Comey under a bogus application of mens rea.

Then maybe Sessions should prosecute Hillary.

[kidd]

If Mike Flynn paid hackers to break into Clinton's poorly secured server, it could be a violation of the law, but it couldn't be a campaign law violation because Clinton left the State department in 2012 (well before the election). This would be well outside Mueller's charter.

If Mike Flynn was attempting to find out if hackers were successful in breaking into Clinton's poorly secured server, so as to demonstrate how irresponsible she was at handling classified information, then I have a hard time understanding what law was broken. Perhaps Mueller is attempting to slap a label of "collusion" on this, or a similar action. But this is neither illegal nor does it "de-legitimize" the election of Trump, as no such proof was ever made public.

[Snarknado]

If Mike Flynn paid hackers to break into Clinton's poorly secured server, it could be a violation of the law, but it couldn't be a campaign law violation because Clinton left the State department in 2012 (well before the election). This would be well outside Mueller's charter.

If Mike Flynn was attempting to find out if hackers were successful in breaking into Clinton's poorly secured server, so as to demonstrate how irresponsible she was at handling classified information, then I have a hard time understanding what law was broken. Perhaps Mueller is attempting to slap a label of "collusion" on this, or a similar action. But this is neither illegal nor does it "de-legitimize" the election of Trump, as no such proof was ever made public.

So basically the worst case would be that he hoped they had the emails, and might have intended to try to obtain them in some illegal fashion, and that they might have contained something that might have affected the election?

I'd love to see that go to court...