Posted on 09/25/2020 8:54:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Agents who worked on Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation joked about wiping their cell phones, according to an FBI agent who worked for the special counsel.
FBI Agent William Barnett told government investigators last week that he heard other FBI agents at the special counsel’s office (SCO) “comically talk about wiping cellular telephones,” according to a summary of the interview released as part of the court proceedings in the case involving former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“Barnett had a cellular telephone issued by the SCO which he did not ‘wipe.’ Barnett did hear other agents ‘comically’ talk about wiping cellular telephones, but was not aware of anyone ‘wiping’ their issued cellular telephones,” the summary (pdf) states.
The FBI and the DOJ did not respond to a requests for comment.
SCO records released earlier this month show that at least 22 phones belonging to members of the Mueller team were wiped prior to being reviewed for records. The employees provided dubious excuses for wiping their phones, such as doing so “accidentally” or because they forgot their passwords. Two employees claimed their phones wiped themselves.
In addition to the 22 devices which were wiped, 44 phones contained zero records when reviewed by a records officer assigned to the Mueller team. Five other SCO phones contained only one record each, and four had fewer than 10 records per device, according to the log kept by the records officer over the course of more than 20 months.
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Big Media is confident that they’ve sold us on cell phones keeping ALL call records and data on the phone itself.
Probably ordered the deluxe signature hildabeast version of bleach bit right? From amazon.
This interview happened just last week
I think he flipped
Premeditated wiping of phones. Obstruction of Justice. Felony. Laughing or not!
“They can’t arrest us all”
How about jail time for everyone of the 22 who wiped their devices?
-PJ
Like with a cloth? yuk yuk yuk
So... were the phones not wiped, or did Mueller’s people wipe them and then laugh at the Attorney General as he tried to get at their contents?
Can you say “obstruction of justice”?
I wonder if the DOJ can?
“How about jail time for everyone of the 22 who wiped their devices?”
How about hanging for everyone involved in the coup against PDJT?
Am I just being naive, but isn’t cell phone data automatically recorded and archived by the provider - especially for government-issued cell phones?
The NSA has it, for sure.
And yet when Donald Trump says 'comically' at a nationally-televised press conference "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," is probable cause to open an investigation into the Trump Campaign.
Yes, they should be laughing all the way to jail.
As it is, the old “laughing all the way to the bank” probably applies, since some people, such as Mueller, have written books and cashed in on their crimes.
Maybe so, but I am guessing he is safely retired...
I think they wiped their own phones, Barnet had a phone issued like the others and he said “I did not have my phone wiped”.
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