Johnson also sent a letter to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz requesting a probe over the issue. “You’d think these people could come up with a more believable excuse for hiding evidence.”The new Justice Department records were released after a lawsuit from conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. The documents show that Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann "accidentally wiped" his phone twice after entering the wrong passcode too many times in March 2018. Lawyer James Quarles’ phone “wiped itself” without his intervention, the records say. Graham added: "The question is, did they obstruct justice, did they intentionally delete information from their phone because [Inspector General Michael] Horowitz was on the case?"

Source: Fox News September 11, 2020 17:48 UTC