I know investigators are allowed to lie in the course of questioning… suppose Mueller may feign racism when talking to Jeffey, to really get him to open up?
Or lead questioning with…
“I know everybody loves fudge, but why must it be brown?, Amirite Jeffey?”
Stalling for time. They are waiting for some stroke of brilliance at 2am to get them out of this. Manafort is in the same mode.
Beginning to think there has been so much effort to claiming spies and other crap, they may have forgotten how to actually defend on what is in front of them already. Actually, Gowdy may have just deflated a lot of balloons with his agreeing the Feds did nothing wrong. So now what guys? (snicker)
It was always ever, first and foremost, a PR campaign, Which is why Trump doesn’t care if his lawyers are shysters and charlatans like Rudy. It’s always about the con.
Two day shipping and free returns on all privileged documents!
You’re right that there’s no privilege for “highly personal” materials, but the Cohen team is likely requesting special treatment for them and seeking a protective order that would prevent their public disclosure and require that, if used, they must be kept under seal.
I clearly remember the fuss about two email classification headers of Clinton’s emails that conservatives carried on about for weeks. In retrospect those emails are miniaturized dwarves next to Trump giving classified information in the Oval Office. Now he has “personal” claims during a criminal investigation ??? But her emails !!