The Briefing Room
General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: edpc on December 27, 2018, 06:54:36 pm
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WASHINGTON
A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer†Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.
During the same period of late August or early September, electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency picked up a conversation among Russians, one of whom remarked that Cohen was in Prague, two people familiar with the incident said.
The phone and surveillance data, which have not previously been disclosed, lend new credence to a key part of a former British spy’s dossier of Kremlin intelligence describing purported coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russia’s election meddling operation.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article219016820.html#storylink=cpy (https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article219016820.html#storylink=cpy)
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This had been refuted and supposedly debunked, but McClatchy doubles down on their previous story.
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Every phone carries an International Mobile Equipment Identity number, or IMEI, an electronic fingerprint that can be altered. Instructions for the hack are readily available online, covering both Apple and Android devices.
That raises the possibility that a foreign agent who obtained the ID number of Cohen's phone could have cloned it and switched it on somewhere in order to suggest he was present.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6533445/New-claim-Michael-Cohens-phone-Prague-time-meeting-described-Trump-dossier.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6533445/New-claim-Michael-Cohens-phone-Prague-time-meeting-described-Trump-dossier.html)
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This proves what crime?