Turn in your smartphones! How Mueller kept a lid on Trump-Russia probe NathanPLayne karen_freifeld
WASHINGTON - When members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election arrived for work each day, they placed their mobile phones in a locker outside of their office suite before entering.
One common restriction in SCIFs is to keep out smartphones and other electronic devices, which can be turned into covert listening devices or spy cameras. Visitors were also required to turn these over before entering. “Then he drove us 15 blocks to their location and we went in through the garage so that nobody would see,” Caputo said in an interview.
Former Trump campaign advisor Sam Nunberg said an FBI agent picked him up at the train station to take him to the office. “We are working in a secure location in Southwest DC,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, has said.“In a town where everybody and their mother is trying to get on the front page, Bob Mueller was always trying to stay out of the news,” said Mark Corallo, a former Justice Department spokesman. “He wanted to be judged on actions, not press conferences.”
More than once, Jay recalled, members of Mueller’s team expressed their commitment to confidentiality. “They made it clear on a number of occasions, ‘We don’t leak. You don’t have to worry about that with us.’”
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