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EXCLUSIVE: Republican Rep. Doug Collins demanded Apple CEO Tim Cook provide information on the iPhone’s feature that wipes phone data after a certain number of failed passcode attempts, following newly released Justice Department records which showed more than a dozen phones belonging to members of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigatory team were “wiped” during the Russia probe.
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In a letter exclusively obtained by FOX Business Tuesday, Collins, R-Ga., wrote t=o Cook that he believed the “information will be helpful to many Members of Congress and the American public” who are concerned that members of Mueller’s team “may have intentionally wiped their government-issued iPhones, illegally destroying government records in the process.”
REPUBLICANS DEMAND ANSWERS ON MUELLER TEAM WIPING PHONES, SUGGEST 'ANTICIPATORY OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE'
Collins’ letter comes just days after records from the Justice Department surfaced showing that at least several dozen phones belonging to members of Mueller’s team were wiped of information because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device, intentional deletion or other reasons — all before the Justice Department inspector general’s office could review the devices.
“From the events described in the DOJ-released documents, it seems to be no coincidence that so many of Mueller’s staff members’ iPhones were wiped due to a forgotten passcode right before turning them in,” Collins wrote. “If my instinct is correct—that these individuals intentionally subverted potential efforts to investigate their actions during the Mueller investigation—it leads inquiring minds to wonder: what evidence was so damning that they felt the need to destroy it?”
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