Subj : Re: fbi
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Fri Sep 16 2022 15:40:23

On 16 Sep 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> >  MP> Some people complained but nothing major has happened.
 MP> > People, yourself included, have intimated that the search was politicall
 MP> > motivated. However, they gave Trump multiple chances to come clean befor
 MP> > they resorted to that. Had they gone straight to the search & seizure, I
 MP> > believe that the outcry would have been much greater and something major
 MP> > very well have happened.
 MP> Yes, "some people (including me) complained."

Yep.

 MP> > Trump is right now threatening that very bad things will happen if he is
 MP> > indicted.
 MP> You said that things had already happened.

No, I didn't. I said that the outcry would have been much greater had the DOJ
gone straight to the search & seizure.

 MP> > No. But with the post-COVID work from home policies, some lines have bec
 MP> > bit more blurred. Am I allowed to keep such records on my work-issued la
 MP> > in my home? Yes. Are people who deal with paper-based records and work f
 MP> > home allowed to keep those records in their home? Yes, under lock and ke
 MP> > Are these records in our homes subject to records retention rules?
 MP> > Absolutely.
 MP> We are not allowed to keep Federal records in places such as work-issued
 MP> laptops or in our homes.  They have to stay on government owned servers
 MP> and in goverment-owned (and marked!) file cabinets, and only certain
 MP> servers and certain file cabinets.  There have to be X number of levels
 MP> of security one must pass through in order to physically access these
 MP> servers and file-cabinets. Even when everyone was work-from-home full
 MP> time, that was still the case.

Interesting.

 MP> As the office of the SoS is a Federal office, I doubt the security on
 MP> those articles was as loose as it apparently is in Texas with state data.

Could be. Most of the "secrets" we deal with (although not myself personally)
are related to personally identifiable information.

 MP> >  MP> > Hillary was investigated and found to have been irresponsible, bu
 MP> >  MP> > othe
 MP> >  MP> > that to have done nothing wrong.
 MP> >  MP> That there was any evidence remaining of.
 MP> > Correct. And there is no evidence that the "missing" evidence to which y
 MP> > alluding ever existed.
 MP> Secure deleting things from a server, using a product such as Bleach Bit,
 MP> will not leave any such evidence.

There is no evidence that any of the deleted emails were confidential.
Perhaps if the server had been infiltrated prior to the deletion, there might
be copies of those emails. But none have turned up, despite Trump's very
public request for Russia to assist in locating them.

Jeff.

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