Posted on 09/12/2020 5:59:45 PM PDT by Libloather
On Saturday, President Trump reacted to news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team wiped their phones clean before turning the devices over to investigators. Recently released documents suggest the Muller team engaged in massive evidence destruction while under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.
At least 15 phones used by Mueller's team of investigators were 'accidentally' wiped clean, the new documents reveal. A key tactic used by the Mueller team to destroy the evidence was to place the phones on airplane mode, lock them, and then claim not to remember the password.
"Phone was wiped prior to review because phone was in airplane mode and the passcode was not provided -- therefore the phone had to be restored to factory settings without review," reads one entry for a phone assigned to a redacted individual.
President Trump railed against the Mueller investigation, comparing the liberal team of prosecutors to "Crooked Hillary."
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ALERT: So now we find out that the entire Mueller hit squad illegally wiped their phones clean just prior to the investigation of them, all using the same really dumb reason for this accident, just like Crooked Hillary smashing her phones with a hammer, & DELETING HER EMAILS
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Replying to @realDonaldTrump ....It has now been determined that the Mueller Scam should never have been set up in the first place, there were no grounds. It was all an illegitimate Witch Hunt, & a big price must be paid. How different my life would have been if this fraud on America was never committed!!!
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump All that time and money spent, and it turns out that the Mueller Investigation was a total SCAM!
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From what I understand for when I was furloughed for 10 days in April (Unpaid vacation), IT has total control of the employee's phone.
My IPhone password ment nothing to them (IT). IT had total control.
IT uploaded what ever I had on my work phone then wipe everything off the device as if I had been terminated.
Has it come to this? There is no justice . Pathetic .
I will live long enough to see Andrew Weissmann’s bleeding lifeless corpse hanging from a meathook in an Esso station...
President Trump. They work under the EXECUTIVE.
Now that their investigation has concluded, it’s now time to make an example of Mueller and his law breaking staff.
Appoint a special counsel to investigate them — FISA, Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Brennan, Clapper, Baker, Biden (2), Vindman (2), Schiff, Ciaramella, Pelosi, et al.
I;m waiting for the fist of Trump to come crashing down on these fools.
I have HAD it with Barr. He has done NOTHING! And I am sick of Trump blowing smoke about what a great AG he is. BULL!
Yes, I don't understand how deleting (wiping) messages on a smart phone deletes what went through numerous servers. I also never understood how Hillary could delete 30,000 emails without a trace. In this age, every thing you send over various servers should be traceable.
Did 4 of them forget to wipe their phones?
Mueller’s ‘Right-Hand Man’ on Russia Probe Represented Clinton IT Aide Who Set Up Unsecure Server
12/8/2017, 11:50:19 AM · by Behind Liberal Lines · 80 replies
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Yet another key member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe appears to have deep ties to the Democratic Party. Aaron Zebley served previously as Muellers chief of staff at the FBI and in the FBIs Counterterrorism Division and as a senior counselor in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice. He also was an assistant U.S. attorney in the National Security and Terrorism Unit in Alexandria, Virginia. He is often referred to in the media as Mueller’s “right-hand man.” Also, in 2015 when he was a lawyer, he represented Justin Cooper, the IT staffer who personally set...
Zainab Ahmad is an attorney on loan from the Eastern District of New York, where she served as a deputy chief of the National Security and Cybercrime section before being loaned to Muellers team. Ahmad made a name for herself prosecuting terrorist suspects in New York, including Lawal Babafemi and Najibullah Zazi, the would-be al-Qaeda subway bomber. The authorities initially tracked down Zazi by following information from Ahmads prosecution of Abid Naseer, a Pakistani man who had been plotting an attack on a shopping center in the United Kingdom. According to a 2017 New Yorker profile, Ahmad has prosecuted and won thirteen terrorism cases since 2009.
Uzo Asonye, currently an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, joined the special counsels office to serve as its local counsel in the trial of Trumps former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, located in Eastern District of Virginia. According to his LinkedIn page, Asonye also worked in the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Group of the law firm OMelveny and Myers. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records show that Asonye donated $800 to the Clinton campaign in 2008. Asonye has previously prosecuted embezzlement and bribery cases, amongst others, including the successful 2016 prosecution of a former U.S. contractor based in the Embassy in Baghdad charged with accepting cash payments to gain electrical construction contracts in Iraq.
Rush Atkinson is an attorney on detail from the DOJs Criminal Divisions Securities and Financial Fraud Unit, where hes worked as a trial attorney for the past four and a half years according to his LinkedIn Account. In 2016, Atkinson prosecuted a multimillion-dollar fraud case against the heads of a public charter flight company.
Ryan Dickey is a longtime federal prosecutor who specializes in cybercrimes and fraud. Dickey worked for the Justice Department for several years and joined the Mueller team last November. He most recently served in the criminal divisions Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Most famously, Dickey helped prosecute the Romanian hacker Guccifer in 2016. The Romanian hacker is often confused with Guccifer 2.0, a different hacker who allegedly hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Guccifer pleaded guilty to hacking into the emails and social media accounts of numerous high-profile victims, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell and family members of former President George W. Bush.
Kyle Freeny is an attorney on detail from the DOJs Criminal Divisions Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. In 2016, she was part of a Justice Department team seeking to recover over $1 billion from an alleged corrupt Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. Freeny gave $250 to Obamas campaign in 2008, $300 to Obamas campaign in 2012, and $250 to Clintons campaign in 2016.
Andrew Goldstein is an attorney on loan from the Southern District of New York, where he served as former U.S. Attorney Preet Bhararas Public Corruption chief, and received the Directors Award from the Bharara in 2015. Goldstein investigated and prosecuted the CityTime case, which the Department of Justice then referred to as the largest municipal fraud and kickback scheme in history. Goldstein received further praise from Bharara upon his June appointment to the Mueller probe, when Bharara tweeted, Best of best in every way. Fair, tough, smart. Goldstein donated more than $750 to Obamas 2012 campaign and more than $2,800 to Obamas 2008 campaign.
Adam Jed is an appellate attorney on detail from the DOJs Civil Division. A former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Jed received the Attorney Generals Award for Exceptional Service in 2014, following his work on the successful implementation of the Supreme Courts decision that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, a law barring the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages legalized by the states.
Scott Meisler joined the special counsel in June 2017, according to Mueller spokesman Peter Carr. Meisler joined the special counsel in June 2017. Prior to that, he had worked as an appellate attorney for the Department of Justices criminal division since 2009. During that he spent a year as the departments assistant solicitor general, from April 2015 to April 2016. Meisler has experience in cases that involve search warrants & seizures, wiretapping, mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.
James Quarles is a former partner at the law firm WilmerHale and a former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. Recently served as a partner at WilmerHales Litigation/Controversy Department. FEC records show Quarles has contributed more than $35,000 to Democratic House, Senate and presidential candidates since 1987, as well as $2,500 to Republican Jason Chaffetz in 2015 and $250 to Republican Sen. George Allen in 2005.
Jeannie Rhee is a former partner at the law firm WilmerHale, who has served in the Office of Legal Counsel and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Shes a top financial and fraud prosecutor having spent years at the U.S. Attorneys Office in Washington, ABC News contributor and former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen said. Muellers appointment of Rhee drew the ire of conservative commentators, owing in part to large sums she had donated to Democratic campaigns — $5,400 to Clinton in 2015 and 2016, and $4,800 to the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2011, as well as $4,800 in further donations to the Obama Victory Fund. Additionally, Rhee donated more than $3,000 to other Democratic causes since 2004. Conservatives also took aim at Rhees defense of the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 case after she left the Obama administration in 2011 and entered private practice at WilmerHale.
Brian Richardson, a former Supreme Court clerk under Justice Stephen Breyer, joined the special counsel in July 2017. He also served as a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from 2013 to 2014.
Brandon Van Grack is an attorney on loan from the DOJs National Security Division. Grack served as counsel to the assistant attorney general at the National Security Division before joining the Eastern District of Virginia as a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney for National Security and International Crime. Van Grack gave about $300 to the Obama campaign and Victory Fund in 2008, in addition to other Democratic donations totaling less than $100 in 2012.
Andrew Weissmann is an attorney on loan from the DOJ Criminal Divisions Fraud Section, who has served as general counsel at the FBI under then-Director Mueller and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Before joining the FBI, Weissmann oversaw the Enron Task Force from 2002 to 2005, including the prosecution of Jeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay and Andrew Fastow. Before that, Weissmann served in the Eastern District of New Yorks U.S. Attorneys Office, where, according to the Justice Department, he was instrumental in bringing to justice high-ranking members of New Yorks toughest crime families. While a partner at the law firm Jenner & Block in 2008, Weissmann donated a total of $4,700 to the Obama campaign and Victory Fund. Meanwhile, a donor listed as Andrew Weissman, from the same law firm donated $4600 to Clinton in 2007 and $2,000 to the DNC in 2006.
Aaron Zebley is a former partner at the law firm WilmerHale, who previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. Zebley served as chief of staff to both Mueller and his successor as FBI Director, James Comey. Zebley most recently served as Senior Counselor in the Justice Departments National Security Division. Before his time at the FBI, Zebley investigated national security matters for the US Attorneys office in Alexandria, VA and as a FBI Special Agent in the Counterterrorism Division.
Aaron Zelinsky is an attorney on loan from the District of Maryland. Before Zelinskys appointment to the Mueller team, he worked under the man who appointed Mueller special counsel Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Zelinsky worked as an assistant U.S. attorney under Rosenstein during the latters time as U.S. Attorney in Maryland. While in Maryland, Zelinsky earned an award for Excellence in Prosecution of Organized Crime. Additionally, Zelinsky has clerked for retired Justice John Paul Stevens and Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court. Harold Koh, formerly of the State Department, has said he brought Zelinsky in as a special assistant at the State Department, where he worked the cases of Americans held hostage abroad. Koh calls Zelinsky an incredible team leader.
Two FBI veterans have left the team since its inception.
Peter Strzok, who had been tapped by Mueller to help lead the probe, left the team last summer, sources told ABC News in August. As chief of the FBI’s counterespionage section, he helped oversee the FBI’s investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server when she was the U.S. secretary of state. His office was also involved in investigating Russia's alleged efforts to influence last year's presidential election, including the hacking of Democratic National Committee computers. Strzok left the Mueller team amid revelations that he and a fellow, former team member, Lisa Page, had exchanged numerous texts during the 2016 election disparaging then-candidate Trump.
Lisa Page, described as a trial attorney with deep experience [in] money laundering and organized crime cases, left around the same time as Strzok and returned to work in the office of the FBIs general counsel, a spokesperson for the special counsel confirmed to ABC News last September. According to one source, Page joined Muellers team on a short, temporary assignment and always expected to return as soon as that assignment ended. Page and Strzok remain under scrutiny for the text messages the two exchanged during the campaign.
The Deep State is certainly alive and well.
It does remind me of the mess that Trantor, the capital planet of the Asimov Foundation series.
Once the entire planet becomes a city (dense like NYC), how does anyone navigate it or get justice?
More examples of criminal, democrat lawyers.
JoMa
In this age, every thing you send over various servers should be traceable.”
Exactly and these little snakes know this better then most. Which begs the question. Why do they think wiping the phones would do the trick? Do they know the DOJ will not retrieve the data OR do they know it has been purged from the systems?
Same here, which is why I am capturing the most critical info.
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