prison staffers stole Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney-client emails
I cannot stress this enough: there is no such thing as attorney-client emails for prisoners. Prisoners access the internet through guard monitored, government owned computers. There is absolutely no expectation of privacy at a government owned computer that is monitored by guards. There is no way that any reasonable prison will give unfettered access to the internet to prisoners.
a whistleblower should not "take" attorney mail
Was mail taken in this case?
attorney-client privilege.
If a third party is present, attorney-client privilege does not attach. For instance, if you use a government computer, and sign paperwork saying you understand you have no privacy on that government computer, then there is no attorney-client privilege possible.
It is illegal to use, to give out and publish, information obtained from the theft of attorney client privileged information.
It is illegal for a federal prisoner to have unguarded access to the internet. If Maxwell was stupid enough to use emails which she knew were being monitored by guards, it is not "theft" for those guards to monitor the emails.
An attorney for
Ghislaine Maxwell denied that her client is seeking a commutation of her sentence and said
prison staffers have been fired after leaking her emails to congressional Democrats.
So he denies the emails are real, and demands anyone who saw the real emails which he just denied be fired.
There might be something legal about firing the guards. The guards leaked emails they had legal access to. That could be a fireable offense.
Using information that was obtained through illegal means, such as hacking or violating a confidentiality agreement, can lead to criminal charges for the person who receives it.
It is now illegal for guards to monitor computers that they are legally REQUIRED to monitor? This was not a hacked into computer. It was a government owned and monitored computer. To get access to it, Maxwell agreed to have all her use of it monitored.
It is illegally passing privileged attorney-client relations onto a politician for political gain.
If you rob a bank, and one of the customers happens to be a lawyer, can you claim that attorney-client privilege is attached?
This is silly. She used a computer that was being monitored to send emails she knew were being monitored, so no attorney-client privilege.
So if someone leaked Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his lawyers chats to Ted Cruz
One of the key points to the Garcia case is that he was not been given access to his lawyer. ICE has been blocking private access to lawyers, thereby making attorney-client privilege impossible.
