Mueller team defends obtaining Trump transition emails

 Special counsel Henry Martyn Robert Mueller’s workplace on Sunday defended its work when a professional for President Trump’s transition team defendant investigators of improperly getting thousands of emails from transition officers.

“When we've obtained emails within the course of our current criminal investigation, we've secured either the account owner’s consent or acceptable criminal method,” Peter Carr, a voice for the special counsel’s workplace, aforementioned in an exceedingly statement to hill.

Axios reportable Sabbatum that Mueller’s team is currently in possession of tens of thousands of emails from the Trump transition team, together with messages from Trump’s relative-in-law and senior authority Jared Kushner, further as alternative members of the transition’s political leadership and policy team.

Mueller's prosecutors reportedly used the emails to question witnesses, and also are trying to the messages to verify data and follow new leads.

Axios reportable that the special counsel obtained the emails from the overall Services Administration, that managed the transition team's email accounts.

But in an exceedingly letter to many members of Congress, a professional for Trump’s transition team, Trump for America (TFA), aforementioned that Mueller obtained the emails illicitly.

Kory Langhofer accuses the independent agency of “unlawfully produc[ing] TFA's non-public materials, together with privileged communications, to the Special Counsel’s workplace,” in keeping with Reuters.

Langhofer's letter, that was sent to the Senate Office of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and therefore the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, calls on the committees "to defend future presidential transitions from having their non-public records illegal by government agencies, notably within the context of sensitive investigations crossed with political motives.”

Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference within the 2016 election has het up in recent weeks when Trump's former national security authority Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI concerning his contacts with Russians.

The investigation has additionally seen Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, indicted on multiple charges.