{"id":39978,"date":"2020-09-16T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39978"},"modified":"2020-09-16T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:41:03","slug":"it-keeps-getting-more-fishy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39978","title":{"rendered":"It Keeps Getting More Fishy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Epoch News<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

An official who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller<\/a>\u2019s Russia investigation wrote in a recently released email that he or she was in possession of an iPhone belonging to Lisa Page<\/a> three days after the former FBI<\/a> lawyer\u2019s last day on the job and at a time when the device was thought to have been lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The special counsel\u2019s office (SCO) and the Justice Department previously claimed to have no documents to show who handled Page\u2019s iPhone after she turned it in on July 14, 2017, or who improperly wiped it two weeks later, before it could be checked for records, in violation of SCO policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But documents released by the Department of Justice (DOJ<\/a>) on Sept. 11 tell a different story, with three officials certifying that Page turned over her phone and one claiming to have been in possession of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI have her phone and laptop,\u201d an administrative officer with the initials LFW wrote in a July 17, 2017, email<\/a> to Christopher Greer, an assistant director at the DOJ Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beth McGarry, the executive officer at the special counsel\u2019s office, told Greer in an email sent earlier in the day that Page \u201creturned her mobile phone and laptop.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The records officer\u2019s log shows that Page\u2019s iPhone wasn\u2019t the only device to elude an examination for government records. A total of at least 22 iPhones with unique asset tags used by the Mueller team were wiped before the records officer could review the contents, according to an Epoch Times review of four inventory logs and various forms released<\/a> on Sept. 11.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mueller team offered a number of excuses for the deletions. Two people claimed the phones wiped themselves. Others said they erased all the data by accident or had to do so because they forgot their passwords. Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor, wiped his iPhone twice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mueller\u2019s team used a total of 92 iPhones, according to the documents. Four of the phones appear in the inventory logs, but not on the records officer\u2019s log, suggesting they were either recorded without their unique asset tag or evaded the officer entirely. One of the four phones belonged to deputy special counsel Aaron Zebley. Another belonged to Zainab Ahmad, a special counsel attorney.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One phone was partially wiped. Four phones were improperly handed over to the OCIO and wiped before the records officer\u2019s review. As many as seven phones with no asset tags noted by the records officer were either reassigned or wiped before the officer could assess the device for records.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you or I accidentally or otherwise destroyed evidence in an investigation, we would be in jail. It bothers me that no one has faced any consequences for the illegal use of the government in an attempt to unseat President Trump. I am hoping that will change, but I am not optimistic.<\/p>\n

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