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THE SPECIAL COUNSEL probing whether US President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia has unlawfully received tens of thousands of emails, a lawyer for Trump’s transition alleges, according to US media.
In a letter to congressional committees, Kory Langhofer says the General Services Administration (GSA) “unlawfully produced” the private materials, including privileged communications which special counsel Robert Mueller then used as part of his Russia probe, Axios news site reported last night.
GSA is the government agency which supports presidential transitions.
The accusations by Langhofer, representing Trump’s transition team, are the latest by Republicans seeking to raise doubts about the credibility of Mueller’s investigation, which has already led to charges against Trump’s former national security advisor and three other people linked to the presidential campaign.
Langhofer wrote that Mueller’s office “received from the GSA tens of thousands of emails, including a very significant volume of privileged material,” according to a copy of the letter published by Politico.
The letter suggests that a warrant should have been obtained for such materials, and says that the incident undermines the Presidential Transition Act.
“This is another attempt to discredit Mueller as his #TrumpRussia probe tightens,” California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell said on Twitter in response to the Langhofer accusations.
Some members of Trump’s Republican party have already urged that a second special counsel be named to investigate Mueller’s operation.
The special counsel’s critics have seized upon the case of Peter Strzok, a senior FBI agent whom Mueller removed from his team for sending text messages critical of Trump.
In addition to whether Trump’s campaign team colluded with Russia to help him win last year’s election, the special counsel is also looking at possible obstruction of justice, after Trump fired FBI director James Comey.
Trump has repeatedly denied that there was any collusion.
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My wife was under the supervision of Dr. Louise Kenny who is one of the leading Doctors in this research. My wife delovped this condition in her three pregnancy’s the last only two weeks ago. Only for the very highly skilled Dr. Kenny we have three healthy children. Well done to all involved and keep up the excellent research.
Fantastic news.
I suffered badly with this during my one and only pregnancy which lead to my boy being born 10wks early. Both of us came out of it great thankfully and you wouldn’t belive now that my boy was only 2lb7 when born. He is fine, big and healthy now. I was advised to be happy with what I had and not try pregnancy again.
So this news is amazing and its just a pity my time clock is against me. But best of luck to those that lives it will touch.
This is fantastic news, I’m currently on bed rest with high blood pressure during my pregnancy and hoping it doesn’t develop into pre-eclampsia! I wish all those involved with this project the very best of luck!
Best of luck to you Starry eyed :)
This is a wonderful advance. It will save many lives and help spare heartache. Pre-eclampsia was diagnosed too late for my first pregnancy and my premature son only lived 4 days. I had pre-eclampsia from the beginning of my second pregnancy but thankfully with blood pressure medication and regular monitoring, I have a very healthy daughter. Best of success to this company.
Well done folks!
Hi folks, Just to draw your attention to a link that you might find useful should you require more information about pre-eclampsia – have a look at the Pre-eclampsia Foundation’s website: http://www.preeclampsia.org/
I added it to the end of the article above but just in case some people didn’t read right to end and skipped straight to comments. (Not that that EVER happens on our site ;))
Best of luck to all mums and dads-to-be, Susan
Well done to them and hopefully it’s successful. I had pre-eclampsia with both my children and its one of the reasons I won’t have a third. Anything that can detect and hopefully in time prevent this awful condition is to be applauded.
It is a UCC spinout company too – great news for them, well done!
I love it!
Well done to all involved. Up Cork and its enterprising personnel.
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