Civil liberties? And this is regard to witnesses, not targets? Yikes!
Via Daily Caller:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has collected witnesses’ personal cell phones to examine encrypted messages sent through apps, according to CNBC Thursday.
Agents believe encrypted messages sent through WhatsApp, Confide, Signal and Dust could contain conversations that were previously inaccessible to them, anonymous sources told CNBC.
Witnesses in Mueller’s Russia probe feared a subpoena and began handing over cell phones as early as April. The news comes on the heels of the special counsel indicting Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, claiming he used encrypted messaging to contact witnesses and “conceal evidence.”
It’s unknown whether investigators have collected any valuable information from the phones, and Mueller’s office declined to comment to CNBC.