Former Top Mueller Prosecutor Dodges Question About Wiping His Phone

One of the top prosecutors who served on the special counsel's Russia investigation sidestepped a question on Wednesday about whether he wiped his government-issued phone during the course of the probe.

In an interview aired on Sept. 30, CBSN anchor Vladimir Duthiers asked former special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann if he was one of the at least 22 Mueller team members who wiped their phones.

Weissmann, who wiped his phone twice, did not answer the question and pivoted instead toward claiming that all of the records were backed up on the staff members' government-issued computers.

According to a log kept by a special counsel records officer, Weissmann wiped his government-issued iPhone 7 on March 8, 2018, by incorrectly entering his "Password too many times." Wiping an iPhone in this manner is all but accidental because, due to built-in delays after too many bad password attempts, it takes more than an hour to accomplish.

In addition to the at least 22 special counsel phones being wiped during the course of the Mueller investigation, 44 phones contained no records when they were examined by the records officer, according to internal documents released in September.

In addition to the 44 phones which contained no records, five phones contained only one record each and four others contained fewer than 10 records per device.

Of the 92 unique iPhones used by the Mueller team, only 12 appear to have contained a significant number of records, an Epoch Times review of available documents determined.
 

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