“On FOX just now someone is saying that it was not illegally obtained because it was obtained passively, someone just mailed it to them. yea, right.”
If that made it ‘legal’, as dirty as NY politics is, this sort of thing would have been done for decades.
Unless handed to them personally by DJT or a duly authorized legal representative, they’re in big trouble.
So under their rationale, wikileaks did nothing illegal by publishing the DNC emails that somebody sent them.