Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government Lawyers for President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn claim the Justice Department is in possession of two Blackberry devices used by Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese professor who allegedly played a central role in the launch of the Trump-Russia investigation.
Sidney Powell, who took over Flynn’s legal defense a couple months ago, asked U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, the presiding judge in the D.C. District Court case, to order the Justice Department to produce the “data and metadata” related to the two devices, according to a Tuesday court filing.
The phones were obtained by the Justice Department “very recently,” Powell told the Washington Examiner, adding that Flynn’s defense team requested this information from DOJ prosecutors Brandon Van Grack and Jocelyn Ballantine on Friday by email but have not received it.
Onetime Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos identified Mifsud as the man who told him in 2016 the Russians had “dirt” about Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, effectively setting in motion what would become the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Mifsud has denied telling Papadopoulos anything about Russian “dirt.” He has long been suspected of having ties to Russia, but Republican investigators such as California Rep. Devin Nunes have alleged he was cooperating with Western intelligence to undermine Trump.