DAILY CALLER: Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz explained on Fox News Monday how the FBI’s raid of Michael Cohen’s office spells danger for lawyer-client relations.
The New York Times reported Monday afternoon that the FBI had raided the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, adding that the agency allegedly seized documents containing conversations between the president and Cohen.
Dershowitz warned about what the raid could mean for attorney-client privilege in the United States.
“This may be an attempt to squeeze Cohen — he’s the lawyer, he’s the guy who knows all of the facts about Donald Trump — to get him to turn against his client,” Dershowitz explained in an interview with Sean Hannity. “This is a very dangerous day today for lawyer-client relations.”
“I deal with clients all the time — I tell them on my word of honor that what you tell me is sacrosanct,” he continued. “And now they say, just based on probable cause…they can burst into the office, grab all of the computers, and then give it to another FBI agent and say, ‘you’re the firewall, we want you now to read all of these confidential communications [and] tell us which ones we can get and which ones we can’t get.’”
Dershowitz added that if the same thing happened to a lawyer for Hillary Clinton, the American Civil Liberties Union would be throwing a fit.
“The deafening silence of the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling,” he concluded. watch
The ACLU is silent? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
OK. Go ogle, Facepalm and now all lawyers.
It’s getting to be you can’t have any privacy anymore.
As I posted on another forum, we should now appoint special investigators/prosecutors for each and every member of Congress and all federal judges, with the mandate to investigate anything they like for as long as they like.
And as a side note, they don’t want to take your guns either.
President Trump needs to fire Mueller NOW and then clean out the FBI and the Justice Department. The Libs can scream and pull their hair out all they want but the President has it within his powers to do it. Almost every case Mueller has touched has turned to crap or been botched.
In a sane World, Hillary and many of her associates would be behind bars by now.
This is only dangerous for attorney-client privilege if your name is Trump.
I try to stay away from NAZI
comparisons but this is Gestapo shit.
At this point, it looks like Mueller, who has nothing on DJT, is trying to bait the president into firing him, so the congressional Dems and RINOs will try and impeach him for the firing.
When we start agreeing with Al Dershowicz, or he with us, all bets are off.
Lazlo has had it up to my eyeballs with this shite.
Fire that fooking hobbit Jeff Sessions and get that Big Boy Chris Christie in there and turn his fat ass loose on these bitches.
I don’t like Christy, but I don’t like Wasp spray either, but it gets the damn job done. So I use it
This isn’t even about campaign or Russian “collusion”, it’s about that lying slut stormy daniels.
No don’t fired Jeff Sessions and the ACLU this fuc are communist.