Mueller interviews cybersecurity expert who worked with suicided GOP operative

[orangecrush]

Mueller has interviewed the cybersecurity expert who described being 'recruited to collude with the
Source: Business Insider

A cybersecurity researcher who described being recruited to vet hacked Hillary Clinton emails last year by a GOP operative tied to President Donald Trump's campaign team has been interviewed by the FBI's special counsel, Robert Mueller, Business Insider has learned.

Mueller interviewed Matt Tait, a former information-security specialist at Britain's Government Communications Headquarters who tweets as @pwnallthethings, several weeks ago, said a source familiar with the matter.

The interview was part of a broader effort by Mueller to examine the relationship between the longtime GOP operative, Peter Smith, and the former national security adviser Michael Flynn and whether Flynn played any role in seeking out the stolen emails during the election. Smith killed himself in May after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his experience.

The House Intelligence Committee has also interviewed Tait in its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, CNN reported.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/mueller-trump-russia-matt-tait-michael-flynn-investigation-2017-10


"The interview was part of a broader effort by Mueller to examine the relationship between the longtime GOP operative, Peter Smith, and the former national security adviser Michael Flynn and whether Flynn played any role in seeking out the stolen emails during the election. Smith killed himself in May after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his experience. "

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Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, records show

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At the time, the newspaper reported Smith's May 14 death came about 10 days after he granted the interview. Mystery shrouded how and where he had died, but the lead reporter on the stories said on a podcast he had no reason to believe the death was the result of foul play and that Smith likely had died of natural causes.


However, the Chicago Tribune obtained a Minnesota state death record filed in Olmsted County saying Smith committed suicide in a hotel near the Mayo Clinic at 1:17 p.m. on Sunday, May 14. He was found with a bag over his head with a source of helium attached. A medical examiner's report gives the same account, without specifying the time, and a report from Rochester police further details his suicide.


https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-peter-smith-death-met-0713-20170713-story,amp.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. Smith hated the Clintons and has been involved in

various attempts to harm them for 20 years. He was deeply involved with Flynn and his son. Of course Mueller would want to investigate anyone close to him in order to proceed with a thorough investigation. Any off topic speculation regarding his suicide is not a serious issue.

[Kentonio]

2. Convenient suicides just as someone starts talking to the press about Russian collusion

Seem perfectly suitable for speculation.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I would normally agree but I know

a lot about the form of suicide that he committed and the book that is mentioned in that article and it is valid and well known. If someone wanted to kill him they wouldn't have used that method...far too complicated and specific. It would have been much easier to do it with a lot of other methods.

[Kentonio]

4. Ah fair enough

[orangecrush]

6. The timing

Is interesting.

Right after he started talking...

This is Putin we're talking about here.

[orangecrush]

5. Thank you

For saying what I was thinking.