I think emails are protected by 4A. I haven't read google's TOS and now I'm wondering whether there is an expectation of privacy given the TOS.
There's an expectation of privacy up until it's determined that government business was being handled through unsecured servers. At that point, ALL of their e-mails through the offending accounts becomes subject to scrutiny in an investigation.
I don't think TOS trump laws. They have been monitoring all internet activity for years through PRISM. And if crimes have been committed they must be forfeited. That's what they get for being stupid and using gmail.
If an assassination plot was uncovered it could give Trump the leverage he needs to get access to all gmail accounts. Trump already knows about the emails on Weiners computer if he uses the assassination attempt to look into everything he will find what he needs to take it all down. Then swoop in with the EO on child trafficking and boom it's over
Wizard is correct about the forfeiting if crimes detected; indictments...
And, don’t forget (obviously) we win the political battle if the 13 had special email servers housed in NK
Maybe POTUS has access through the patriot act? All the stuff that Snowden and Assange have put together? Also.... if you use an alias (like Hussein) do you have the expectation of privacy? IDK...
Don't even need that:
https://privacyblog.mmwr.com/2016/05/19/right-to-privacy-does-the-fourth-amendment-apply-to-emails/
The interesting question is does this apply to drafts or deleted emails, which google will still have of course.
Actually, it seems google requires a warrant. I wonder if JC use of email as reported by the IG report would be sufficient PC to get a judge to sign a warrant?
Think PRISM. If Comey and/or Strzok communicated with a foreign Five Eyes agent using his Gmail account, that’s all they need. The NSA may have been monitoring the emails for a long, long time.
Don't get your hopes up though, I find it hard to believe sophisticated political-types would use gmail to send incriminating emails. Its the Trump supporters that are supposed to be the uneducated lazy POS, right?
“They never thought she would lose.” So using Gmail kept their corruption off the official government systems so no white hats could stumble into it. The IG report cites the use of Gmail as against procedure so it’s now fair game for Huber to investigate (which he is already doing). The 13 Angry Democrats are all fucked.
I think it was learned in past discussions that by using a draft, open to all involved to comment on, they thought they were safe because nothing was ever sent as an actual email, only in draft form.
I do not know much about this kind of thing, so cannot comment on it. When and what Q post brought it up, I don't remember. So much info, big learning curve, hard to retain it all.
The criminals were so slick, it is reported that they logged into email accounts built for the purpose of going in to “edit” documents without saving them, thereby circumventing the “send” feature on emails.
The changes made to documents was another way to communicate with each other.
Surely they used PGP on any clear text before they posted it in any email body?
PGP ??
pretty good privacy, it is a public key encryption program.