Mueller's Team Deleted Information From Phones, DOJ Asked To Investigate
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Johnson asks DOJ watchdog to investigate Mueller team phones over erased informationSen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is asking the Justice Department inspector general to investigate new documents that indicate members of former special counsel Robert Mueller's team erased some records from their official phones.
"These reports are troubling and raise concerns about record retention and transparency," Johnson wrote in a letter to Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general Michael Horowitz. "Therefore, I respectfully request that your office open an investigation into this matter to determine what, why, and how information was wiped, whether any...
From the Left
Trump attacks Robert Mueller's 'hit squad' in row over 'wiped' phonesDonald Trump called Robert Mueller’s investigators a “hit squad” on Saturday, joining rightwing outcry over Department of Justice documents that indicated members of the Russia investigation wiped information from at least 15 phones.
“So now we find out that the entire Mueller ‘hit squad’ illegally wiped their phones clean just prior to the investigation of them,” the president wrote on Twitter.
The DoJ records say the phones were wiped due to damage, hardware problems and missing passwords.
On Friday, a Republican senator, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, demanded a new investigation...
From the Right
Mueller’s Team Members ‘Accidentally’ Wiped Phones Clean of DataJustice Department records obtained and published by Judicial Watch on Friday show that senior members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped data off phones assigned to them, according to the conservative watchdog group.
Judicial Watched obtained 87 pages from the DOJ in response to a September 2019 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the DOJ and the FBI for a December 17, 2018, request for:
All records related to the hardware, software and contents of mobile phones issued to FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa...
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