Did the special counsel violate Trump transition team privacy?
By Joel Cohen and Dale Degenshein, opinion contributor — 12/22/17 02:00 PM EST
Let’s assume, purely hypothetically, that one day special counsel Robert Mueller becomes a villain even to the anti-Trump crowd, and he comes under criminal investigation for conduct having nothing whatsoever to do with his official position. Despite his outwardly cautious manner, it turns out he used his special counsel’s (or even his former FBI director’s) email account to engage in or even make admissions about the wrongdoing. Maybe he even emailed confidential information to his personal lawyer about the investigation of him, before he is terminated. Hard to imagine, but stranger things have happened.
Assume, then, that the Justice Department attorneys investigating our hypothetical citizen Mueller pull his emails that were transmitted using his government email account. His lawyer finds out and goes ballistic, declaring, “Those emails were private and my client had an expectation of privacy. The Justice Department seized those emails illegally in violation of the Fourth Amendment and they and any evidence flowing from them must be suppressed.â€
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