Subj : Re: fbi
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Thu Sep 15 2022 16:29:29

On 15 Sep 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > The government was moving to get them back, but they were dealing with a
 MP> > ex-President. Politics required them to do so with kid gloves. Look what
 MP> > happened when they *did* move to take back the documents without Trump's
 MP> > consent.
 MP> Some people complained but nothing major has happened.

People, yourself included, have intimated that the search was politically
motivated. However, they gave Trump multiple chances to come clean before
they resorted to that. Had they gone straight to the search & seizure, I
believe that the outcry would have been much greater and something major may
very well have happened.

Trump is right now threatening that very bad things will happen if he is
indicted.

 MP> > Where I work, government records have retention poilicies, based on the 
 MP> > of record that it is. My understanding is that the deleted documents sho
 MP> > have been deleted the previous year but weren't, and then were deleted
 MP> > independent of the subpoena.
 MP> Are you allowed to keep them on a private server, where there is no
 MP> "retention period" because they should not be there to begin with?

No. But with the post-COVID work from home policies, some lines have become a
bit more blurred. Am I allowed to keep such records on my work-issued laptop
in my home? Yes. Are people who deal with paper-based records and work from
home allowed to keep those records in their home? Yes, under lock and key.
Are these records in our homes subject to records retention rules? Absolutely.

 MP> > Hillary was investigated and found to have been irresponsible, but other
 MP> > that to have done nothing wrong.
 MP> That there was any evidence remaining of.

Correct. And there is no evidence that the "missing" evidence to which you're
alluding ever existed.

Jeff.

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