Judicial Watch has released Department of Justice records from an FOIA lawsuit showing that the Andrew Weissmann/Robert Mueller team “accidentally” wiped 15 iPhones of data early in 2018 after the phones were requested by the Office of Inspector General for review. Nine other phones belonging to the special counsel team were also wiped clean. The efforts undertaken here seem to be similar to Hillary Clinton’s “accidental” erasure of relevant records, utilizing BleachBit and hammers, in the FBI’s email investigation of Clinton and her team.
As analyzed by the Conservative Treehouse blog: “Mueller’s lead investigator Andrew Weissmann accidentally wiped two phones himself; through a lengthy process of entering the wrong passcode several times over a period of three hours; removing data to show his activity during the special counsel investigation.” Weissmann claimed to have entered the wrong password (it takes ten attempts), resulting in erasure of all the data. Greg Andre, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, made the same claim.
