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Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent ( No warrant/consent seizure Trump docs.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com ^ | 06.06.18 | BETSY WOODRUFF

Posted on 06/06/2018 8:54:24 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45

The Trump transition team may demand an investigation after tens of thousands of emails were handed to the Mueller probe without consent or warrants Late last year, news broke that a federal agency turned over tens of thousands of private emails of Trump transition team officials to the special counsel’s team—without a warrant, and without getting the officials’ permission.

Now, according to communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the transition team is fighting back. They are threatening to call for an inspector general’s investigation of the General Services Administration (GSA), which gave the emails to Mueller, and to potentially try to have officials there sanctioned by the D.C. Bar.

The transition team also charges that the GSA is trying to cover up the involvement of controversial FBI agent Peter Strzok in the allegedly illegal seizure of their emails. A lawyer for the transition team wrote that Strzok “played a larger-than-previously known role in unlawfully seizing our client’s records.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; andrewmccabe; betsywoodruff; bloggers; carterpage; christopherwray; coup; deepstate; election2018; election2020; georgepapadopoulos; jamescomey; lisabarsoomian; lisapage; mediawingofthednc; michaelcohen; partisanmediashills; perjury; peterstrzok; presstitutes; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; samclovis; smearmachine; spying; steeledossier; stefanhalper; trumptransition; trumpwiretaps
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Warrants!? We no need no stinkin` warrants !!!
1 posted on 06/06/2018 8:54:24 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Para-Ord.45

They might need to stop threatening and start surprising.


2 posted on 06/06/2018 9:04:37 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Para-Ord.45

Yes, please start fighting for real, before this jack booted thug railroads the best President we’ve had in decades.


3 posted on 06/06/2018 9:05:08 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They may be crumbs, but the Dems want them back. -robroy's woman [who is using his wife's account])
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To: A_perfect_lady

LOL

You need an AG of the DoJ for that!

Sessions (the ‘insurance’ of PageStrzok emails)most likely had his own NSA records waived under his nose and was told to capitulate.
Deep State Rosenstein is the de facto AG


4 posted on 06/06/2018 9:09:25 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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They are threatening to call for an inspector general’s investigation

That'll teach 'em.

5 posted on 06/06/2018 9:12:20 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

We need a 2nd special counsel.


6 posted on 06/06/2018 9:13:43 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Para-Ord.45

I am so sick of all these rotten shenanigans. I’m surprised Mueller hasn’t raided Trump Tower yet! Why isn’t anyone doing anything?!


7 posted on 06/06/2018 9:38:23 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: Para-Ord.45

The cancer has spread to another government agency.


8 posted on 06/06/2018 9:43:24 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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“the GSA’s then-General Counsel Richard Beckler assured the transition team that it was merely housing the materials, and that any communications would be locked securely away from prying eyes.”

Wikipedia: Richard Beckler
Richard W. Beckler (30 March 1940 – 25 September 2017) was an attorney. He served a number of prominent clients. At the time of his death in late September, 2017, he had been appointed as General Counsel of the US General Services Administration.

After his death, Beckler’s actions at the GSA were discussed in the US national media when it was revealed that the GSA had supplied the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller with copies of more than 5000 emails sent by the Trump administration transition team. GSA Deputy Counsel Lenny Loewentritt, stated that Beckler had not made a commitment to the transition team that law enforcement materials requests would be routed through transition lawyers. Reuters reported statements that “The FBI had requested the materials from GSA staff on Aug. 23, asking for copies of the emails, laptops, cell phones and other materials associated with nine members of the Trump transition team responsible for national security and policy matters”...

Beckler spent 37 years in white collar criminal defense for the firms Fulbright & Jaworski, Howrey LLP, and Bracewell & Giuliani mostly representing corporations such as Halliburton. Beckler also represented many individuals, including CIA Director William J. Casey. Beckler had also represented Iran-Contra figure John Poindexter. Before coming to the GSA, Beckler was a partner and head of litigation in Washington, D.C., for the international law firm Bracewell LLP...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beckler


9 posted on 06/06/2018 9:54:07 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Para-Ord.45; All
Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent ( No warrant/consent seizure Trump docs.)

This guy Comey really was going to go thru and clean up the Miss Hillary emails and all other docs that would have been damaging to Miss Hillary and the Rat party.

Miss Hillary loses the election to President Trump!

James Comey is fired and rightfully so and he was supposed to do all the cleanup of emails and all docs that were damaging to the Rat party but now since he was fired we have Mueller cleaning up all the docs and emails by Miss Hillary so as to not be so damaging.

We have such a corrupt government right now that it should really scare a lot of Americans right now!!!

There are a lot of folks like Jeff Sessions and other folks that will lose their jobs very soon hopefully.

10 posted on 06/06/2018 10:00:16 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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To: familyop

There is a reason that Trump has not gotten the answers and declassified and unreacted everything. The only excuse I have is because all of this non-stop dripping drama serves his purposes.

Why in the world would he keep Sessions if he is totally asleep? Is he just waiting until the mid-terms? Trump does not tolerate fools. We know this to be true, but his tweets and public shaming have been increasingly brutal lately.

I can’t figure it out.


11 posted on 06/06/2018 10:03:37 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Investigation by the Inspector General?

The bureaucrats are trembling with fear!


12 posted on 06/06/2018 10:40:59 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: volunbeer

I’m similarly perplexed. Perhaps it’s the appointing process and the timing that keeps Session in place.


13 posted on 06/06/2018 10:43:45 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Para-Ord.45

But then Donald Trump pardons everybody.


14 posted on 06/06/2018 11:40:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: volunbeer

He might well HAVE some kind of intuition that this game needs to be played out over an appropriate time frame. He’s managed to get lefties to get very rabid in the public eye by dragging it out, and the general public is getting more and more jaded about this. All that sizzle and not an ounce of steak.


15 posted on 06/06/2018 11:42:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Mueller and his team are rogue dogs who belong in prison.


16 posted on 06/06/2018 11:47:45 PM PDT by ZULU
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To: volunbeer

“The only excuse I have is because all of this non-stop dripping drama serves his purposes.”

Exactly. People seem to forget that Trump knew where most of the bodies were buried before he even ran for President. He now, of course, has the power to spill it to the public at the time of his choosing.

Watch Trump, with beautiful Melania at his side, de-nut Sessions in the cabinet briefing yesterday =>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYhqMxzzFZg


17 posted on 06/07/2018 12:06:22 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: MAGAthon

Don’t know anything about Beckler but he must have been a Trump hater because he defended others the Democrats wanted very badly (Poindexter and Casey).

What a POS.


18 posted on 06/07/2018 12:13:12 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: volunbeer

A) The Enemedia would crucify him far worse than for anything before.

B) The RINOs would use it as pretext to openly oppose him on everything - and act self righteous about it.

C) The Senate would refuse to confirm a new AG - and anyone else, including judges.

I do not believe in 3D Chess; it violates Occam’s Razor in too many ways.

For one thing, I am to believe these two contradictory things simultaneously:

A) Jeff Sessions is a supremely honorable man who lives to meticulously uphold the rule of law.

B) Jeff Sessions has violated the rule of law by allowing the Constitutional rights of American citizens to be trampled by an illicit special counsel and acting attorney general, both of whom have more and worse conflicts of interest than he ever had.

The Sessions Sycophants - sundance and crowd - blithely insist they can have their cake and eat it too... all the while bragging about the Silent Assassin.

If Sessions really is playing a secret game, then he is breaking the law to enforce the law. That means We The People lose.

As things are, Trump enjoys the sympathies of the electorate who are not fully onto Establishment RINOs and how much they want him gone. If he does something that is portrayed as Obstruction by them, he will lose the casual conservatives who fall for the superficial narratives.


19 posted on 06/07/2018 12:18:25 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: volunbeer
The only excuse I have is because all of this non-stop dripping drama serves his purposes.

The dripping is a side effect of not declassifying material that might compromise secret sources. Now we found out one of the secret sources was Halper who was a paid informant. Pretty soon we'll find out more about Mifsud, another source kept secret in the Papadop indictment. It's possible Mifsud was really a Russian agent. Or it's possible Mifsud was a British agent. Or Mifsud was just a nothing and Papadop was presssured to plead guilty with a big stick, and let's not forget the carrot (Italian wife).

In any case for all the griping, it didn't matter in the least to MAGA whether we found out about Halper sooner, and doesn't really matter when we find out about Mifsud. Although I would think it would be a good October surprise for either Trump or the deep state. Always remember the deep state can make up new stuff, but they can't do as much new stuff with the old stuff still outstanding particularly if the old stuff is deep state misdeeds.

20 posted on 06/07/2018 12:29:18 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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