Government-related emails are once again prompting a very public dispute -- albeit under very different circumstances than a year earlier. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office has confirmed an Axios report that it obtained thousands of Trump transition emails from the General Services Administration as part of its investigation into the President's team. The move was prompted by transition attorneys who accused Mueller's office of taking the messages without permission.
While the emails were placed on a .gov domain because of the GSA's security responsibilities, the Trump camp has maintained that it owned the messages under the agreement that transferred them. Mueller's group needed to ask for approval to obtain the messages, transition lawyers said, including some the lawyers said were protected by attorney-client privilege. The Special Counsel even obtained some laptops, phones and an iPad through the GSA request.
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