The case against the Mueller inquisition

Julie Kelly:

Two events this week could provide acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker enough reason to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller: The egregious case against General Michael Flynn and the mishandling of cell phones used by FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

According to the federal guidelines for special counsel investigations, “the Attorney General may remove a Special Counsel for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.”

Since Mueller’s obvious conflicts of interest have been overlooked—including his ties to former FBI Director James Comey, his service under the Obama administration, and a team of biased prosecutors—“other good cause” could be the failure to produce court-ordered documents related to the Flynn case or the special counsel’s office scrubbing the iPhones used by Strzok and Page during their brief time on the team, or both.
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On Thursday, Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, filed a report based on an investigation into missing texts between Strzok and Page. The report disclosed that the special counsel’s office scrubbed the iPhones used by both FBI agents while they worked for Mueller in mid-2017. Page, who exited the special counsel’s team in July 2017, left her phone at the office; the device was not located until September 2018 and had been reset to factory settings two weeks after she left.

Astoundingly, Mueller’s office also erased all information on Strzok’s phone in early September, determining there were “no substantive texts, notes or reminders” on his device. It had been reissued to another user so the phone, according to Horowitz, “had no content related to Strzok.”

How can this be acceptable? How can a prosecutor delete information contained on a government device used by government employees? Especially employees under suspicion for their partisan influence in key investigations, including the Clinton email and Trump-Russia cases? Congress needs to demand an answer why the destruction of government property (texts, emails, and other communications) let alone the destruction of evidence is acceptable conduct by the special counsel.
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Mueller no doubt saw how the text messages that were released tainted the investigation of the Trump administration.  Perhaps he wanted to make sure that did not happen to his own investigation and that is the reason why the phones were scrubbed.  It looks like destruction of evidence or obstruction of justice, but this is the same DOJ who allowed Hillary Clinton to do similar things.  It is the two-tiered DOJ where those opposed to Trump get a pass.