Mueller Interviewed Cyber Expert Who Was ‘Recruited To Collude’ With Russians
Special Counsel investigation closes in on Russia connection.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has interviewed a cybersecurity expert who says he was “recruited to collude with the Russians” in the 2016 election, according to a new Business Insider report.
Matt Tait, who is a former information security specialist for Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, was interviewed weeks ago by Mueller.
Tait says that he was recruited by a longtime GOP operative connected to the Trump campaign, Peter W. Smith.
Smith wanted him to obtain emails deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private email server that they believed were hacked by the Russians.
Smith told people during the campaign that he was connected to the Trump campaign and was working with Michael Flynn.
Tait first revealed being approached by Smith in an article in Lawfareblog.com in June called “The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians.”
“Smith implied that he was a well-connected Republican political operative,” Tait wrote.
Tait went on to write that Smith believed “Clinton’s private email server had been hacked—in his view almost certainly both by the Russian government and likely by multiple other hackers too.”
“From [Smith’s] perspective it didn’t matter who had taken the emails, or their motives for doing so,” Taid continued. “He never expressed to me any discomfort with the possibility that the emails he was seeking were potentially from a Russian front, a likelihood he was happy to acknowledge.”
Read the full Business Insider report here.
