Mueller makes reckless move with seizure of Trump transition emails

[Right_in_Virginia]

Mueller makes reckless move with seizure of Trump transition emails
The Hill, Dec 18, 2017, Jonathan Turley

J. Edgar Hoover used to say that “justice is just incidental to law and order.” It was a telling quote from someone who routinely abused his power in seeking what he viewed as enemies of law and order. Hoover is now a pariah at the FBI and the Justice Department, but his attitude toward the use of federal power lingers like a dormant virus. Too often investigators interpret uncertain legal questions as a license for action.

That seems to be the case with a new and troubling controversy over a massive seizure of emails by special counsel Robert Mueller from the General Services Administration (GSA). Mueller did an end run around Trump transition officials and counsel by seizing tens of thousands of emails from the GSA despite claims of privilege. The move was legally unprecedented and strategically reckless. In a gratuitous muscle play, Mueller may have added a potential complication to the use of evidence that could contaminate much of his investigation in any later trial.


Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/365371-mueller-makes-reckless-move-with-seizure-of-trump-transition-emails

[skeeter]

I don't think Mueller's team care so much about having tainted evidence thrown out as they do getting ahold of and making certain embarrassing emails get leaked to the press - for political reasons.

Gotta keep that dribble of bad press going.