FBI, Mueller received Trump transition records from GSA in secret: Senate report

[mystery-ak]

FBI, Mueller received Trump transition records from GSA in secret: Senate report

"This conduct undermines the GSA’s role as a neutral provider of services to presidential transition teams," the GOP report said

By Brie Stimson | Fox News

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI gained access to Trump transition team records during their Russia investigation through the General Services Administration, according to a report from Senate Republicans.

The FBI and Mueller secretly pursued the documents despite an agreement between then-President-elect Trump’s team that the transition records were private property and would not be retained after the transition ended, said a 26-page report released Friday by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairmen of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee, the Washington Examiner reported.

The report, titled, “Don’t Brief the Trump Team: How the GSA and the FBI Secretly Shared Trump Transition Team Records,” said the “presumption of good faith” in the transition “was called into question in 2016. This majority staff report tells an important, yet overlooked, story about how the" FBI and special counsel “secretly sought and received access to the private records of Donald J. Trump’s presidential transition team, Trump for America, Inc.”

It noted that Obama appointee Denise Turner Roth was administrator of the GSA until Timothy Horne was appointed as acting administrator on Inauguration Day in 2017.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-mueller-received-trump-transition-records-from-gsa-in-secret-senate-report

   

[mystery-ak]

Federal Agency Secretly Offered FBI Documents On Trump Officials, Senate Report Says

    A Senate report released Friday blasts the FBI and General Services Administration over their handling of records from the Trump presidential transition team in early 2017.
    The report cites evidence that GSA volunteered to provide the FBI with documents related to Michael Flynn.
    According the report from Senate Republicans, GSA had agreed with the Trump campaign to destroy all records related to the Trump campaign or Trump transition team.
    The report also says that the special counsel’s office requested records from GSA on 13 Trump associates.


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https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/23/general-services-administration-fbi-michael-flynn/

[PeteS in CA]

The FBI and Mueller secretly pursued the documents despite an agreement between then-President-elect Trump’s team that the transition records were private property and would not be retained after the transition ended ...

The agreement that was violated was between Trump’s transition team and the GSA. While it might, hypothetically, argued that records pertaining to Flynn were pertinent to Mueller's investigation, only Flynn's records were pertinent, not the entire team's, and by the time Mueller's investigation started those transition team records should no longer have been in GSA's possession. IOW, GSA bypassed the subpoena process in which team members could contest or try to narrow the subpoena, enabled Mueller's and others' fishing expeditions, and did so secretly.

[Cyber Liberty]

The FBI and Mueller secretly pursued the documents despite an agreement between then-President-elect Trump’s team that the transition records were private property and would not be retained after the transition ended, said a 26-page report released Friday by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairmen of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee, the Washington Examiner reported.

Remember this when they tell you data from background checks for firearms are not retained.