Johnson Requests Inspector General Probe Into Wiped Mueller iPhones

September 11, 2020 Updated: September 12, 2020

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) on Friday requested that the Department of Justice inspector general investigate the wiping of iPhones used by members of the special counsel team which ran the Russia investigation.

“These reports are troubling and raise concerns about record retention and transparency,” Johnson wrote in a letter to the DOJ Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz on Sept. 11.

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