Jonathan Turley on MSNBC questioning whether the transition papers were

[monmouth4]

gotten the legal or other way. Joe is arguing back but Turley is such a wimp and so "iffy." He gets on my last nerve.

[Vinca]

1. Apparently when the transition team was given the government account, they were

informed they should have no expectation of privacy and that the emails would not be withheld in a law enforcement action among other things. Their problem is that they were too dumb to understand what was going on. If they wanted privacy, maybe they should have had their own private account on another server. Any of us could file a FOIA request for the emails. They're government property.

[2naSalit]

3. This is true

When working at every government computer at all the positions I have held I have always had to pass security training courses and hand in a certificate of completion within a week and renewed once every six months. The training instructs the computer user of responsibilities and limitations of use. I can imagine that many have waived these sessions since they see themselves as somewhere above the law. Nothing entered into any of these devices is private property.

[Takket]

5. On top of that

Any claim of executive privilege is absurd because drumpf was not the president during that time. Obama was.

[onenote]

9. I think its a claim of attorney-client privilege.

[onenote]

8. Wrong. "Any of us" could not get access to those emails.

It is settled law that the Presidential Transition Team is not an executive branch agency and that Presidential Transition Team documents are not subject to FOIA requests.

https://www.justice.gov/oip/foia-update-foia-counselor-transition-team-foia-issues

That doesn't necessarily mean Mueller wasn't entitled to get access to them, but there is a world of difference between "any of us" and Mueller.

[bluedye33139]

2. In the Jonathan Turley universe

Obamacare was unconstitutional, Paul Manafort's house was searched by an illegal warrant, Trump is the victim of illegal scrutiny, and basically no Republican has ever done anything wrong in the history of the planet.

[emulatorloo]

14. And Sotomayor was too dumb to be on the Supreme Court. Republican mouthpiece.

[Thrill]

4. Its really hard to explain him and Dershowitz

I don’t get their flip to crazy

[PJMcK]

6. They are corrupted by money and their perceived fame (n/t)

[Princess Turandot]

13. It's not anything new. During Ken Starr's Clinton witch-hunt...

Turley was a huge proponent of impeaching/convicting/removing Clinton from office over Lewinsky.

[highplainsdem]

7. Turley belongs on Fox.

[deminks]

10. They weren't (obtained illegally) and Turley is a reich wing tool

[kentuck]

11. Why did they take it to Congress instead of taking it to the Courts??

Because they are more interested in continuing the attacks on Mueller than trying to convince a judge that they right.

[gratuitous]

15. That's the tell, right there

If the administration had a cogent legal argument to advance, they'd be talking to a judge. Instead, they're talking to Congress and the media, whining about how that Mean Mr. Mueller read all their e-mails and their diaries and the note they passed to Jenny in study hall and it's NOT FAIR!

[Mike Nelson]

12. Please...

...someone tell Turley to retire. He needs to enjoy his dinners at Mar-A-Ligo and tax cuts - we should not have to see him on TV anymore!

[UTUSN]

16. Has he ever supported impeaching Twitler, the way he did multiple times for Dem presidents?