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"[GSA Deputy Counsel Lenny] Loewentritt — whose LinkedIn represents that he has worked at the
agency since 1972 — disputed the claims made in the letter sent by the
Trump campaign.
"Beckler never made that commitment," he said of
the claim that any requests for transition records would be routed to
the Trump campaign's counsel.
Specifically, Loewentritt said, "in
using our devices," transition team members were informed that materials
"would not be held back in any law enforcement" actions.
Loewentritt
read to BuzzFeed News a series of agreements that anyone had to agree
to when using GSA materials during the transition, including that there
could be monitoring and auditing of devices and that, "Therefore, no
expectation of privacy can be assumed."
...
As to whether the Trump campaign should
have been informed of the request, Loewentritt said, "That's between the
Special Counsel and the transition team."
Asked about Langhofer's
letter and Loewentritt's statements — and after publication of this
story — a spokesperson for the Special Counsel's Office, Peter Carr,
told BuzzFeed News, “When we have obtained emails in the course of our
ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account
owner’s consent or appropriate criminal process.”