Why Bevin's and Beshear's botched seizure of Grimes' computer is so troubling

[TexasTowelie]

When they went in to seize the computer of one of Alison Lundergan Grimes' employees last month, they didn’t have a subpoena or a search warrant.

Kentucky State Police, working along with Garrard County Attorney Mark Metcalf, a Republican appointed as independent counsel by Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear, just took it.

Three plain-clothed officers.

One stood watch. One sat at the desk where the computer was. The other crawled around on the floor unplugging cables, according to an affidavit. And then they just took it.

Grimes' employees asked to see warrants. Nope.

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/joseph-gerth/2019/10/16/bevin-and-beshear-agencies-seize-alison-lundergan-grimes-computer/3986936002/
(Louisville Courier Journal)

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Dunno much about this, but the article mentions a feud between the...

Beshear and Grimes families, which could explain a lot. The Hatfield-McCoy feud was half in Kentucky, and that one lasted 150 years.

Republican ratfucking explains even more.

Anyway, I am issued a gummint laptop for my work, with the explicit warnings that everything on it is private and cannot be used for personal uses. Confidential data is readily accessible, but can only be used on the job. And at any time the laptop can be ordered to be returned.

So, I don't really see the problem with state agents impounding state owned computers in state offices. There are gray areas and perhaps a warrant would put some light on them. And the impounding could be more for political than legal purposes.

Anyway, it's a mess.