If you include the placement of a covert camera during a campaign speech in the last election, it starts to look like someone does not want a Republican in the White House, and they are willing to do whatever it takes to prevent it. Each case, looks and sounds like just good investigative journalism, but that would be too much of a coincidence unless the journalist was reading other people's mail. It reminded me of something a friend of mine asked when confronting his girlfriend over a picture she posted on Facebook. "Who took the picture?"
In these two cases, "Who got the idea that there was e-mail worth looking at?" Both of these cases smack of spying, and not the journalistic kind. Somebody is helping the Democrats look in the right places. Once the elements of a potential crime are noted, the Dems can subpoena additional records, as they did in New Jersey. No court, yet, has asked where the original e-mail came from that lead to the request for more. If a criminal act caused the request to be made in the first place, I wonder how a judge could allow the request. It has to appear to not come from a source that would put that into question.
In NJ, the claim is that it came from an attorney who worked for one of the people on Governor Christi'es staff after he was accused of wrong-doing. In the second case, a former employee who was convicted of using her government office for campaigning, something all government employees should be more aware of. In her appeal, the new e-mails arose out of a case that was over a year old. The e-mails still look new to the casual observer and a court will make broad sweeps for internal e-mail that has very little to do with the specifics of the case. They shouldn't, but they do. Whether either of these Governor/Candidates did anything wrong is of no consequence. Whoever is doing this is not trying to say they did. They are just throwing things up on the wall to see what sticks.
This is a pretty clever way of getting internal e-mails that the Chinese use in patent suits. They can bring a patent suit for almost anything, then fish around in the pile of discovery and see what falls out. I'm sure the Chinese are not the only smart people in the world, but they are famous for using our legal system against us. We need to start looking for whoever is doing this and find out who is paying them, or benefiting from their actions. I doubt that the Republican National Committee will turn out to be behind it, but we should try to find out.
I'm looking into the interesting cases of Sarah Palin's email disclosures by Mother Jones, the same people who brought you the insider view of candidate Romney telling how he felt about some of the voters, and Virginia's ex-Governor Robert F. McDonnell, who was investigated after Virginia indicted a chef friend of Bill (Clinton) and Stephen Speilberg. I'm wondering if the "evidence" that came from that case was developed into the McDonnell indictment. Somebody has a real interest in these candidates and ways to get discovery of their internal e-mails. I wonder how many Members of Congress could benefit from the same type of look that is given by lawyers defending their clients from accusations of wrong-doing. Amazon books:
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