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Robert Mueller exploited cellphone GPS to track Trump associates
WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | 6/8/2019 | rowan scarborough

Posted on 06/10/2019 6:35:32 PM PDT by bitt

Robert Mueller says he was able to pinpoint security company executive Erik Prince’s precise location for several hours in January 2017 by matching his mobile phone signal to a cell site near Trump Tower in New York City.

The special counsel’s report discloses the use of this investigative technique, by which police determine a suspect’s location via a cellphone’s GPS signal.

The Prince narrative is one instance in unredacted sections of the report in which Mr. Mueller’s team explicitly discloses cellphone tracking. It raises the question of whether the FBI applied the process to other investigative subjects — a phone’s GPS signal can disclose its exact location within a few feet. One of the first requests the FBI makes when confronting subjects is to ask for their electronic devices.

The fact Mr. Mueller could pinpoint Mr. Prince’s exact whereabouts suggest he used GPS readouts, which prosecutors can subpoena from cellular service providers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201701; blackwater; cellphones; cotraveler; declassification; deepstate; erikprince; fbi; fisa; georgiatech; gps; impeachment; jamescomey; joffe; lisapage; mueller; muellerinvestigation; peterstrzok; prince; robertmueller; russianphones; seychelles; snowden; spygate; spying; tracking; trump; trumptower; witchhunt; xe
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To: Jumper

You can cower before the surveillance state but some of know that they don’t have the personnel to do anything about 99% of the shite they track and we go about our affairs big fat and wide, daring them to do anything other than collect traffic data. Some of us actually provoke the peckerheads, get them to further dilute their assets. If we all gave them the finger, they’d be all like...I gotta just eat this. Stop cowering and be a man.


21 posted on 06/10/2019 7:19:55 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui (I took the red pill. Smarter-Faster)
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To: BobL

https://thedroidguy.com/2019/06/9-best-phones-removable-battery-2019-1079207

Yes, most of them are used, but I can vouch for one of them that I bought new.

There is a reason that it’s hard to get cell phones with removable batteries, and its going to get harder to get cell phones with removable sim cards.

Which brings up another point- it is usually a lot easier to swap out SIM cards on a phone with a removable battery than it is on a phone without.


22 posted on 06/10/2019 7:22:29 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Jumper
do not take a taxi or your ride if manufactured before 1998

Before?

23 posted on 06/10/2019 7:31:23 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: BobL

My mobile phone is a smartphone, and it has a removable battery.


24 posted on 06/10/2019 7:50:13 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: bitt; All

These Democrat Operatives are evil SCUM! Mueller is in this BS up to his EYEBALLS along with the rest of them!

Please! Either send us some JUSTICE or send us some Lightening Strikes! C’mon, already, Almighty!


25 posted on 06/10/2019 7:55:21 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: bitt

Why couldn’t Mueller come clean that he knew there was no collusion the day he sat down at his desk?
A character flaw?
Revenge for not getting the FBI job?
General animosity toward DJT?
Simple Hillary should have won Democrat TDS?


26 posted on 06/10/2019 8:00:30 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: bitt

Myooler needs to rot in prison with the rest of them.


27 posted on 06/10/2019 8:02:50 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: bitt
Uh, yeah...and some Kung Pao Chicken.

Hey Barrack, you want anything?


28 posted on 06/10/2019 8:10:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Sasparilla

“Why couldn’t Mueller come clean that he knew there was no collusion the day he sat down at his desk?”

I think his job was to stir up trouble and run out the clock until after the 2018 election hoping the Rats would take the House and/or the Senate. Maybe not, but it’s possible.


29 posted on 06/10/2019 8:12:36 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: bitt

I believe Snowden revealed the existence of a program called co-traveler that allows you to see the phones that are moving with you. This was for the war on terror.


30 posted on 06/10/2019 8:15:38 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: neverevergiveup

Kinda spendy.

I use a small tin container that was the packaging for a Christmas fruitcake. I works perfectly and you can find them in various sizes for next to nothing.


31 posted on 06/10/2019 8:17:06 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: dragnet2

Comey: I blew up the building.

Mueller: Why'd you do that?

Comey: Because you admitted we were spying.

32 posted on 06/10/2019 8:20:44 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: bitt

Stasi SOB POS. This is the new Amerika. He is a disgrace.


33 posted on 06/10/2019 8:32:40 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: BobL

[ “Never buy a cellphone that lacks a removable battery.”

Good luck with that, unless you buy only flip phones. ]

The perfect alibi for someone who has lazy cops....

Leave cell phone home, sneak out of house in ninja clothing on foot, commit crime, sneak back home...

I was home all night officer, ( they check cell phone records, yup hey was home all night )


34 posted on 06/10/2019 9:22:12 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: coaster123

All it would take is any prosecutor with an IQ of at least 101 who isn’t a rotten, slobbering, deep state coward.


35 posted on 06/10/2019 9:43:33 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: dragnet2

#28. The headset Obama is using looks like the ones the Nazi War Criminals used at Nuremberg. Prophetic, I hope.


36 posted on 06/10/2019 11:37:58 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: conservative98

Is it just me or does anyone else think Mueller reminds one of John Kerry’s sister?


37 posted on 06/10/2019 11:51:29 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: bitt

If I ever have to “go dark”, I will ditch my cellphone, take lots of cash and leave the credit cards behind. I’ll take my cats though... I trust them.


38 posted on 06/10/2019 11:53:52 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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...exact whereabouts suggest he used GPS readouts, which prosecutors can subpoena from cellular service providers.

Which would mean all cell phone companies store all GPS locations 24 hrs a day for every cell phone. Seems like an enormous amount of disk space.


39 posted on 06/10/2019 11:54:01 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff
Which would mean all cell phone companies store all GPS locations 24 hrs a day for every cell phone. Seems like an enormous amount of disk space.

Very minimal. Timestamp + location + cellular ID.

Besides, they simply forward it all to NSA which stores it forever (so it can be retrieved as needed). Storage is cheap nowadays, especially when your agency has an unlimited budget.

Review the Edward Snowden documents. The gov not only has all our location data, they have recordings of calls and texts. All it takes to access this stuff is a FISA warrant. Welcome to 2019.

40 posted on 06/11/2019 12:04:44 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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