A famed Harvard legal scholar is raising concerns about the Justice Department's ability to responsibly handle some documents seized Monday from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's offices.
Among the scooped-up papers, and lurking on phones and hard drives, is likely to be a cache of material that's covered by attorney-client privilege.
Prosecutors are not permitted access to those files, and the DOJ's standard practice is to set up a 'taint team' – a group of agents and lawyers not connected to the Cohen case or the special counsel probe into all things Russia – to decide what they can see.
But 'taint teams don't work,' Alan Dershowitz told DailyMail.com on Tuesday, because seizing the material in the first place was a violation of Cohen's constitutional rights – even if it's never used in court.
Dershowitz was at the White House on Tuesday afternoon in advance of a dinner appointment with the president, according to two officials.
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6 comments:
Sure he did, but the government and democrats don't care. This is why we need guns.
What is 'taint'?
Duh.....
Mueller is a Government employee. He can't be challenged,
They are desperate to take out Trump and won't let something as trivial as the Constitution stop them. Trump is investigating the FBI / Obama spy gate scandal and they want to knee cap Trump before he exposes them.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
What is 'taint'?
April 11, 2018 at 1:23 PM
Now that question is from left field.
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