Jim Jordan Wonders if it’s ‘Time for Mueller and Company to be Investigated?’ After Cell Phones Wiped

It was announced on Friday that more than two dozen cellphones belonging to members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team were “wiped” clean of their data before the Justice Department’s inspector general could check them, according to a report.

Many on the left and in the media have attempted to downplay the report and have said that it is a standard procedure even and that the outrage is overblown.

.@PressSec seems VERY upset that people who worked on a sensitive investigation would, at the conclusion of that investigation, ensured that their issued phones did not contain any confidential data before handing them over to whatever random IT/HR people collected them. pic.twitter.com/1Cxu5Vyec1

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) September 12, 2020

The only problem with that is that released DOJ records show the phones were wiped of the data because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device and intentional deletion, among other reasons, Fox News reported.

US House Rep. and Judiciary Committee ranking Republican Jim Jordan last night tweeted out a response to the situation. “Mueller investigates President Trump for two years” he said and “Finds nothing.”

He then said that conservative non-partisan group Judicial Watch “FOIA’s Mueller team” and they discover “that Mueller’s staff wiped their cell phones of all data.” He wondered if it’s “Time for Mueller and company to be investigated?”

Mueller investigates President Trump for two years:

-Finds nothing.@JudicialWatch FOIA’s Mueller team:

-Discovers that Mueller’s staff wiped their cell phones of all data.

Time for Mueller and company to be investigated?

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 13, 2020

From NY Post:

Mueller deputy Andrew Weissman “accidentally wiped” his device twice after he entered the wrong passcode too many times in March 2018, according to the documents cited by Fox News.

Attorney James Quarles’ phone “wiped itself” of the data without his input, say the records, which were released after a lawsuit from the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, the network reported.

The documents also show that a phone belonging to then-FBI attorney Lisa Page — who exchanged anti-Trump texts with fellow agent Peter Strzok — was restored to factory settings when the Inspector General’s Office got it, according to Fox News.

Mueller’s probe found no evidence of criminal conspiracy or “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russian officials — although it did claim that the Kremlin “interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systemic fashion.”