Posted on 07/15/2021 7:34:01 AM PDT by bitt
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are asking the Justice Department for more information and records after learning that the department could not locate 59 of the 96 phones used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
Further, the Justice Department failed to review over twenty phones for federal record preservation. In September 2020, Grassley asked about the potential violation of federal record-keeping laws after a Freedom of Information Act disclosure detailed the inventory and management of the special counsel team’s devices and showed records had been deleted. Johnson requested information from the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General about its awareness that cell phones belonging to members of the special counsel’s team were reportedly “wiped.”
They are now seeking further clarity on what steps the department has taken to recover the missing phones and the underlying records.
Full text of the senators’ records request follows or can be found HERE.
July 12, 2021
VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION The Honorable Merrick Garland Attorney General Department of Justice
Dear Attorney General Garland:
In September 2020 we wrote to the Department of Justice and its Office of the Inspector General (DOJ OIG) regarding allegations that cell phones assigned to “multiple people on then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team were ‘wiped’ for various reasons during [the Russia investigation].”[1] Based on the OIG’s May 11, 2021 response, we understand that the Department’s Justice Management Division (JMD) provided the OIG with information relating to the Special Counsel’s Office (SCO) cell phone records.[2] JMD informed the OIG that 96 phones were assigned to the SCO and JMD currently cannot account for the location of 59 SCO phones.[3]
Specifically, shortly after the SCO’s closure, in June 2019, JMD took possession of 79 of 96 phones in an official property transfer from the SCO.[4] Of those, it appears that 74 SCO phones were reviewed for official records and these records, including notes and text messages, were sent to DOJ or FBI email systems for preservation.[5] Thus, not all the phones were subject to record preservation.
The OIG referred our offices to the “Department for any specific records related to these phones or with any follow up questions.”[6] Accordingly, please provide the following information no later than July 26, 2021:
1. Please provide the “SCO Inventory and Property Transfer Documentation”[7] and any related records in possession of JMD.
2. Please provide the names of all SCO employees whose cell phones were not reviewed by JMD for official records.
3. Of the 74 SCO cell phones that were reviewed by JMD for official records, how many text messages were sent or received? Please provide all records.
4. What actions has JMD taken to recover the 59 SCO phones that the office has not been able to locate?
5. Has JMD or any other Department entity reviewed the SCO cell phones to determine whether they were used to leak sensitive or classified information?
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
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“They are now seeking further clarity on what steps the department has taken to recover the missing phones and the underlying records.”
Thisn is bullsh*t! The Senators know full well that just like Clinton destroyed her government communications devices, Mueller’s scumbag attys busted theirs up into tiny pieces and then further ground them into dust before flushing it down the toilet.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GOOD LUCK
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart.
It might be a friend, a neighbor, a coworker or a relative.
It doesn’t matter.
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart.
Over 2 years after the Mueller Report was released - glad to see they are right on top of it. /s
Worse, after the DOJ has changed hands and will do nothing to respond (which might have been said of Bagpipes, too)…
Grassley needs to go…he’s about as worthless in his position as Linda Grahamnisty.
This is the most stupid pandering.
So if the phones are found and text reveal a conspiracy to Get Trump………..nothing will become of it.
If the phones are never found……….nothing will become of it.
If DOJ admits they destroyed the phones……..nothing will become of it.
Another delightful waste of time.
Just showboating to fool the rubes that we’re on your side. If they were serious they would have demanded accountability and pulled the Muller team in for hearings every day like the Democrats would. President Trump is a fighter for conservatism our Republican Senators give lip service to conservatism and surrender on Democrat demand. That’s why the President had to go by any means fair or foul, he exposed the games the Republicans play especially around primary time.
Typical Republicans, years late and dollars short.
Grassley will die of old age before he gets the requested information.
But a chance to send out fundraising letters and emails.
Yep.
Grassley needs to enter the next phase of life………..fishing.
They will hear back when Hell freezes over.
The GOP does nothing.
and never did anything except enrich THEMSELVES.
Grassley is a loser who ignored USPTO corruption
delivered to him.
DID nothing. Ignored everything like the rest.
Not enough payoff, Senator?
In the end, the USA was lost to China,
while the GOP let the FIB take out POTUS,
and let the IRS take out conservatives,
and let the FIB/FEMA behead vets.
THE GOP MAKES TREASONOUS SCUM LOOK VERY GOOD.
Theft of government (taxpayer) property, hire a special prosecutor. Sounds like Mueller’s team committed more crimes than they uncovered.
You hit the nail hard on that comment.
The only step I see as a beginning to fix some of this country are Term Limits.
I think about how many morons wouldn’t be there now if we had term limits.
Geez, is it three years late yet?
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