Up yours democrats...Judge rules Trump transition emails held by GSA not subject to release under FOIA

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/03/politics/trump-transition-emails-gsa-foia-
judge/

Washington (CNN)A government transparency group cannot have access to
Trump transition team emails under access to public records laws, even
though they are being held by the federal General Services Administration,
federal Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Tuesday.

The Democracy Forward Foundation had sued in federal court under the
Freedom of Information Act for access to the transition-era emails of
Trump team members Mike Pence, Michael Flynn, Chris Christie, Jeff
Sessions, Jared Kushner and Trump's adult children, among several others.

The transition members all used ptt.gov email addresses, and the
transition had made an agreement with GSA to have the agency host the
email accounts.

When the transition became part of criminal and national security
investigations in 2017, GSA kept the records for law enforcement purposes
and shared the emails and the transition's electronic devices, which also
were on loan to team Trump from the agency, with the FBI.

Even with the emails in its possession, the GSA argued in court that the
records weren't the agency's to make available. Presidential transition
teams' records are not covered under the Freedom of Information Act.

"The GSA did not create the records. Nor did it review, search or consult
them. It did not use them in any way," Mehta wrote in his opinion. "In
short, there is nothing about the documents' contents that would shed any
light about GSA's operations or decision-making. Therefore, the transition
team's emails are not 'agency records' subject to disclosure under FOIA."

The case -- one of many FOIA cases before the DC District Court related to
the Trump administration and the investigations of the campaign and
transition -- fleshes out where the court stands on a unique public
records situation related to Trump.

Not all GSA documents related to the Trump transition and the
investigation of it have been shielded from the public.

In February 2018, CNN gained access to emails between the FBI and GSA,
including the FBI's request to the agency to preserve the Trump transition
team emails that the Democracy Forward Foundation later sought.


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denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
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Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.

The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
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compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
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Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
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